Seven years into George W. Bush's administration, the only member of the president's original cabinet still in office is Elaine Chao, the secretary of labor.

This week, a national labor organization, American Rights at Work, launched a Web site highlighting the failures of the Department of Labor under Ms. Chao called "Shame on Elaine." The Web site can be found at www.shame onelaine.org.

Ms. Chao, the wife of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, has appointed former mining industry executives to posts in the Department of Labor, such as David Lauriski, who was the assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health from 2001 to 2004.

Mr. Lauriski was the safety officer of a mine in Utah when 27 miners were killed in a fire.

In 2006 that job was taken over by Richard E. Stickler, another coal executive, who had injury rates of twice the national average at his mines, but still testified that current mine safety laws were adequate.

The National Mining Association, however, does not share the negative assessment of the Department of Labor under Ms. Chao.

Carol Raulston, the association's spokeswoman, said that since the mining fatalities of early 2006, the Mine Safety and Health Administration under the Department of Labor has been very aggressive in implementing new regulations and in trying to hire more mine inspectors, which she said the mining association knows, because they are competing for the same people.

New regulations, Ms. Raulston said, "have been coming out pretty rapid-fire."

The Web site contains links to news stories about Ms. Chao, essentially building a case that her tenure has been marked by the deterioration of labor standards by putting all of the reporting from news agencies across the country together.

"Over the last seven years, Chao has escaped much-needed public scrutiny of her record, often overshadowed by the scandals of other Bush cabinet members," said Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director for American Rights at Work.

"Elaine Chao's long honeymoon is now over, as we are taking her to task on a wide range of issues and policies she's supported to the detriment of America's workers."

"That's just not our impression at all," Ms. Raulston of the mining association said.

The Web site says that under Ms. Chao the Mine Safety Health Administration has cut about 100 inspectors and that the agency failed to inspect 107 of the 731 underground mines in 2006.

During the past seven years, the Mine Safety and Health Administration also did not impose fines on 4,000 violations of health and safety laws, including one violation that was responsible for the death of a miner. The site also points out areas in which she has been hostile to unions, impeded unionization and called for workers to purchase their own safety equipment.