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Some Background On New Labor Secretary - Hilda Solis

pHilda Solis has been tapped to be Barack Obama's Secretary of labor.nbsp; As Bloomberg.com a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087amp;sid=aBq6gZvg._wMamp;refer=home"reports/a:/p blockquote pSolis, 51, is a four-term member of Congress with an extensive record on environmental issues. Her legislative accomplishments include spearheading a bill to provide workers with training for ldquo;green-collarrdquo; employment. Such initiatives are a hallmark of Obamarsquo;s plan to address the countryrsquo;s energy needs and create new jobs./p pObama has promised to press an ambitious labor agenda to strengthen unions, protect jobs and bolster the middle class. The president-elect is set to announce the Solis appointment tomorrow in Chicago, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Solis, who grew up in a union household in Los Angeles County, is a favorite of labor groups, including the Service Employees International Union./p /blockquote pSolis has been a blogger for The Huffington Post.nbsp; For some insight into Solis' views, a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-hilda-l-solis/"it is worth perusing a collection of her posts for The Huffington Post/a.nbsp;/p pShe also sets out here labor ties in this speech:/p pnbsp;/p object height="344" width="425" param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9ON0d_cU_98amp;color1=0xb1b1b1amp;color2=0xcfcfcfamp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1" name="movie" / param value="true" name="allowFullScreen" /embed height="344" width="425" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9ON0d_cU_98amp;color1=0xb1b1b1amp;color2=0xcfcfcfamp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1"/embed/objectimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaliforniaLaborAndEmploymentDefenseBlog/~4/489938561" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by California Labor & Employment Defense Blog on December 19, 2008 (boomark / email).