Sacramento Bee-
Julie Su, who oversees the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency and its embattled unemployment system, was nominated Wednesday by President Joe Biden as the deputy secretary of the U.S. Labor Department.
Su is generally viewed two ways: As a highly respected worker rights attorney and advocate who has battled with major corporations — and as the leader of the troubled state agency that has struggled to manage California’s unemployment system and has been hit by allegations of widespread fraud during the coronavirus pandemic.
Last week, the California Business and Industrial Alliance ran a full-page ad in the Washington, D.C., edition of USA Today.