In Defense of Julie Su for U.S. Labor Secretary

Your editorial “A Big Labor Partisan Named Su” (April 19) extrapolates from Julie Su’s career in California to project what her tenure as Labor secretary would look like if she is confirmed. But we have already seen what a Secretary Su would look like, as she has served for over two years now as deputy U.S. Labor secretary.

The editorial first claims that Ms. Su is hoping to take California’s AB5 law national “with a proposed regulation that replicates California’s mess by reclassifying millions of contractors as employees.” While Ms. Su and her colleagues are taking on the illegal and widespread practice of misclassifying workers, it is based on the six-factor “economic-realities test” that the Supreme Court enunciated decades ago, not AB5’s “ABC test.”