Submit a Letter to Your Local Newspaper to Stop Trump’s Nominee for Labor Secretary

The Senate is expected soon to hold hearings on President-elect Donald Trump’s labor secretary nominee, Andrew Puzder. Puzder would be a disaster for working people. He’s railed against a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, opposed expanding overtime pay and supported replacing working people with machines.

Enter your ZIP code to get started, and submit a letter to the editor to say why Puzder is a horrible choice to run the Department of Labor.

Below is sample text you can use to write your letter.

Note: You’ll want to modify your letter a little from this sample text to increase the chances your letter is published. We recommend referencing your city and including a personal story in your letter, too.

Sample Letter Title:

Trump’s Nominee for Labor Secretary Is a Bad Choice

Sample Text:

  • Donald Trump has nominated fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder to lead the Labor Department. This is a bad choice for working people.

  • This pick betrays the spirit of the Trump campaign and threatens to leave working people more vulnerable to abusive employers.

  • Puzder opposes raising the minimum wage and says workers don’t need overtime and should instead be happy with a “sense of accomplishment.”

  • Puzder has used his position and authority as a fast-food CEO to enrich himself at the expense of working people by violating labor law. One investigation found that more than half of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants reviewed weren’t paying workers what they were owed.

  • He refused to pay his managers the overtime they earned and said he’d like to replace human workers with machines, because machines “never take a vacation...there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex or race discrimination case.”

  • People who work at his restaurants make poverty wages while he made more money last year in one day than one of his full-time minimum wage workers makes in a year.

  • All of these reasons make Puzder unfit to run the agency tasked with protecting people at work.

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