– Trump To Name CEO Of Fast Food Restaurants As Labor Secretary:
Considering that during the Obama administration, the only job category that has performed remarkably well has been fast food workers, waiters and bartenders, a category which has added 571,000 jobs since 2014 as the US has lost 34,000 manufacturing workers in the same period…
… it is perhaps fitting that the next Labor Secretary will be the CEO of fast food chains.
Trump and Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, walk from Trump National Golf
Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J.
According to the WSJ, Donald Trump is set to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary. Puzder is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, and has been a vocal advocate for cutting back regulations he says have stifled growth in the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the American workforce.
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