{"id":1126178,"date":"2023-07-10T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=288675"},"modified":"2023-07-10T05:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:50:15","slug":"why-workers-demand-julie-sus-confirmation-as-labor-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/10\/why-workers-demand-julie-sus-confirmation-as-labor-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Workers Demand Julie Su\u2019s Confirmation as Labor Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t enough for owners of lucrative Southern California car washes to cheat their workers out of wages and overtime. They made workers pay for the\u00a0towels they used\u00a0to clean cars, denied them rest breaks, forced them to toil in\u00a0filthy water that bred foot fungus, and even required the so-called \u201ccarwasheros\u201d to hand-wash vehicles\u00a0with skin-burning solvents.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/10\/why-workers-demand-julie-sus-confirmation-as-labor-secretary\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/10\/why-workers-demand-julie-sus-confirmation-as-labor-secretary\/\">Why Workers Demand Julie Su\u2019s Confirmation as Labor Secretary<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/10\/why-workers-demand-julie-sus-confirmation-as-labor-secretary\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t enough for owners of lucrative Southern California car washes to cheat their workers out of wages and overtime. They made workers pay for the\u00a0towels they used\u00a0to clean cars, denied them rest breaks, forced them to toil in\u00a0filthy water that br&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126179,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126178\/revisions\/1126179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}