Snap: Union protests Obama’s Labor Department

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President Obama’s Department of Labor, considered one of the most pro-Big Labor ever, is being protested by the union that represents 4,000 department workers.

Local 12 of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) union is “up in arms” over a seven-fold hike in parking fees in the department’s garages at the Frances Perkins Building, local Vice President Eleanor Lauderdale tells Secrets. “That’s a steep climb.”

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