Trump To Name CEO Of Fast Food Restaurants, Andy Puzder As Labor Secretary

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: ZERO HEDGE

URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-08/trump-name-ceo-fast-food-restaurants-labor-secretary


Considering that during the Obama administration, the only job category that has performed remarkably well has been fast food workers, waiters and bartenders, a category which has added 571,000 jobs since 2014 as the US has lost 34,000 manufacturing workers in the same period...



... it is perhaps fitting that the next Labor Secretary will be the CEO of fast food chains.


Trump and Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, walk from Trump National Golf
Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J.

According to the WSJ, Donald Trump is set to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary. Puzder is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, and has been a vocal advocate for cutting back regulations he says have stifled growth in the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the American workforce.

Puzder's burger chains have a combined 3,750 locations in 44 states and 40 countries and U.S. territories. Puzder has served as chief executive officer of the company since September 2000. Long based in California, the company is in the process of consolidating its corporate headquarters in Nashville. Roark Capital owns CKE, having purchased the company from Apollo Global Management in December 2013.

More details:

 

Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, has been a vocal advocate for cutting back regulations he says have stifled growth in the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the American workforce.
 
Mr. Puzder, an adviser and contributor to Mr. Trump’s campaign, has criticized the Affordable Care Act and has argued against raising the federal minimum wage higher than $9 an hour. Democrats have called for raising the federal minimum wage for as high as $15.
 
Mr. Puzder is on the board of the International Franchise Association, a trade group that has criticized the Obama administration, saying it attacked the franchising model by implementing regulations that stunt job growth. Instead of focusing on stepping up workplace regulation to create jobs and higher wages, Mr. Puzder would likely call for tools such as an overhaul of the tax system, said Matt Haller, a spokesman for the franchise trade group.

In the past, Puzder has written opinion pieces for The Wall Street Journal on topics such as the negative effects of President Barack Obama’s health-care law and of broad increases in minimum wage. Including franchisees, CKE has about 75,000 employees in the U.S., and nearly 100,000 world-wide, with total sales of more than $4.3 billion.

With this appointment, we expect the universe of waiters and bartenders to really take off.

[Frank Cannon]

This is a good pick. Carl's makes great burgers....

[corbe]

   What Burgers?

[andy58-in-nh]

What? No buns?

[truth_seeker]

Founder Carl Karcher was deeply religious Catholic, and very conservative.

I remember the original drive-thru location in Anaheim.

[GtHawk]

Founder Carl Karcher was deeply religious Catholic, and very conservative.

I remember the original drive-thru location in Anaheim.

And I'm sure he has been spinning in his grave since the leadership of the company he created started running soft porn commercials.

[geronl]

Two chains I avoid like the plague due to some offensive commercials

[Right_in_Virginia]

Puzder is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, and has been a vocal advocate for cutting back regulations he says have stifled growth in the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the American workforce.

More people with real life experience running the show!   




http://www.ckr.com/about_management.html#puzder

[geronl]

More people with real life experience running the show!   

Yep, another lobbyist given power.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Yep, another lobbyist given power.

Pfft ...  more knee-jerk hate.   

[musiclady]

Hardee's burgers stink.

[truth_seeker]

Pfft ...  more knee-jerk hate.   

That is ALL this place is good for anymore. Zero substance. Zero.

Meanwhile in the REAL world, the DJIA is up 7% post election.

[corbe]

   This probably has nothing to do with it, right?



   Is that a Goldman Sachs Helo?

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

This guy is a massive amnesty advocate. I wonder if people know that.

[Longiron]

Another non politician businessman and NOT a donor. Luv it! Now just make the right call on SOS and lets roll! Leave MITTENS @ home until he can take on Candy at best.

[geronl]

This guy is a massive amnesty advocate. I wonder if people know that.

He's going to delete e-verify

[geronl]

That is ALL this place is good for anymore. Zero substance. Zero.

No reasoning, just fellatio for Trump

[musiclady]

That is ALL this place is good for anymore. Zero substance. Zero.

Meanwhile in the REAL world, the DJIA is up 7% post election.

And all you're good for these days is bad mouthing this wonderful forum and contributing absolutely nothing yourself.

Where's the substance in any of your posts??

If you hate it here, and you do nothing but denigrate the people here, why in heaven's name don't you just stay at TOS where it's Uniparty thinking, just like yours??

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

That is ALL this place is good for anymore. Zero substance. Zero.

Meanwhile in the REAL world, the DJIA is up 7% post election.

Well you're free to post at FreeRepublic, the Trump safe space. You won't be triggered there.

[Right_in_Virginia]

And all you're good for these days is bad mouthing this wonderful forum and contributing absolutely nothing yourself.  Where's the substance in any of your posts??

Right back at ya @musiclady   When have you posted an article?  Tell us when you have contributed or posted anything other than chapter and verse from the Sanhedrin wing of American politics?     

Stop trying to stifle free thought and free speech @musiclady.   That may be in tune with your essence --- but it is most assuredly  beneath the essence of this forum.


@truth_seeker

[ABX]

He seems to be ok. Political contribution history right down the middle. Moderate on many issues that I find (pro Obamacare,  mixed on Amnesty, against regulations, for lower taxes).

[thackney]

This guy is a massive amnesty advocate. I wonder if people know that.

From 18 months ago, he wrote:

* Addressing the illegal population. The next president will need to work with Congress to establish consequences for violating our laws that are harsh enough to be meaningful but also reasonable. But with some 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally, every candidate should support a path to legal status—short of citizenship—for illegal immigrants willing to accept responsibility for their actions and take the consequences.


Such consequences could include passing a background check, paying a fine, demonstrating the ability to be independent of welfare, engaging in community or military service, learning English and taking an American civics course. Every option should be on the table, except amnesty, which forgives illegal conduct. It isn’t amnesty if immigrants admit wrongdoing and accept punishment.

* Citizenship. American citizenship is a privilege, not a right. Whether candidates support requiring people who are here illegally to return to their home countries to become citizens, or whether they propose allowing immigrants to remain in the U.S. and go through an arduous naturalization process, the privilege of citizenship is something worth protecting.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ending-the-republican-drama-about-immigration-1433715621

[ABX]

From 18 months ago, he wrote:

* Addressing the illegal population. The next president will need to work with Congress to establish consequences for violating our laws that are harsh enough to be meaningful but also reasonable. But with some 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally, every candidate should support a path to legal status—short of citizenship—for illegal immigrants willing to accept responsibility for their actions and take the consequences.


Such consequences could include passing a background check, paying a fine, demonstrating the ability to be independent of welfare, engaging in community or military service, learning English and taking an American civics course. Every option should be on the table, except amnesty, which forgives illegal conduct. It isn’t amnesty if immigrants admit wrongdoing and accept punishment.

* Citizenship. American citizenship is a privilege, not a right. Whether candidates support requiring people who are here illegally to return to their home countries to become citizens, or whether they propose allowing immigrants to remain in the U.S. and go through an arduous naturalization process, the privilege of citizenship is something worth protecting.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ending-the-republican-drama-about-immigration-1433715621

He uses the same changing of definitions that you find from the likes of JEB! 

A path to legal status is amnesty as otherwise, someone who came here illegaly and committed the other crimes that go along with illegal immigration would not be eligible for any sort of legal status. In order to get any sort of legal status, bet it work permits, a 'pathway', or even returning home and reapplying, some sort of amnesty has to be granted under the current law. One can't apply for citizenship or resident visas if they previously came here illegally. Even the fairly lax BCC/B1/B2 Border Crossing Cards (day labor cards to come across for shopping or minimial work) disqualify you if you've ever been in the US illegally or committed a felony.

[truth_seeker]

From 18 months ago, he wrote:

* Addressing the illegal population. The next president will need to work with Congress to establish consequences for violating our laws that are harsh enough to be meaningful but also reasonable. But with some 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally, every candidate should support a path to legal status—short of citizenship—for illegal immigrants willing to accept responsibility for their actions and take the consequences.


Such consequences could include passing a background check, paying a fine, demonstrating the ability to be independent of welfare, engaging in community or military service, learning English and taking an American civics course. Every option should be on the table, except amnesty, which forgives illegal conduct. It isn’t amnesty if immigrants admit wrongdoing and accept punishment.

* Citizenship. American citizenship is a privilege, not a right. Whether candidates support requiring people who are here illegally to return to their home countries to become citizens, or whether they propose allowing immigrants to remain in the U.S. and go through an arduous naturalization process, the privilege of citizenship is something worth protecting.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ending-the-republican-drama-about-immigration-1433715621

Thanks for the FACTS. I don't find his position unusual, considering his core business is fast-food in California for 70 years or so.

The census populations for California and Texas are about 37% Hispanic, mostly native born citizens, but a lot that are not, too.

So he probably has good knowledge about various factors concerning legal immigration etc.

[mystery-ak]

I actually don't mind these Cabinet picks...choosing successful business people instead of political hacks or university professors who have never managed a business or made a payroll....we have tried everything else and look at the shape we are in...