The Department of Labor
Civil Discourse
English - November 08, 2022 17:00 - 57 minutes - 30.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsGovernment News government documents govdocs politics courts house senate congress laws scotus Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Aughie and Nia discuss the Department of Labor as the next in the series. The Bureau of Labor was initially part of the Department of Interior, then its own Bureau but not part of the Cabinet, and then part of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and then in 1913 it becomes its own Department with a Cabinet Secretary as the head. From this convoluted start to the present, the Department of Labor has had to balance union and labor rights with employer desires to maximize profits. Aughie explains this tension within the mandate of the department.