In a move that may spell bad news for the American labor movement?s ability to influence the creation and enforcement of federal labor policy affecting millions of working men and women, the Labor Department is stepping up its efforts to hire business school graduates. Among the means by which the department is seeking to increase the number of MBA holders it employs, are the creation of a new fellowship program for business school graduates, and an emphasis on recruiting mid- and late-career professionals who have MBA?s. The decision to intensify the hiring of business school graduates was made in June by Bush appointed Labor Department Secretary, and member of the anti-union conservative Heritage Foundation, Elaine Chao.
See "Labor Department Launches Broad Efforts to Recruit MBAs", STEPHEN BARR, The Washington Post, October 17, 2002