After years of requests for better labor union oversight, the Labor Department’s union watchdog office has finally added a pair of aides with extensive experience advocating against organized labor. One of those new aides is none other than Rusty Brown, formerly of RWP Labor, who started as a union-avoidance consultant on January 6.
Bloomberg Law said of Rusty, “Brown was involved in a massive campaign to decertify a union representing 27,000 home care workers in Minnesota. He also pushed the department last year to investigate a prominent Texas worker center that has been a vocal critic of working conditions on construction projects.”
The other aide, Trey Kovacs, who began as a special assistant on January 21, is formerly a labor policy analyst at the free market think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Read more about the agency’s strides forward here.
