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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., as his pick for secretary of labor. The AFL-CIO says that Chavez-DeRemer has a poor voting record, yet concedes that she has been an ally of unions and has consistently supported workers’ rights to organize. The Teamsters Union strongly endorsed her as a moderate Republican and a good choice for the Trump administration.
While she has the advantage of possibly securing some Democratic support from these endorsements, her nomination has received pushback from the business community and Republican senators, with U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., objecting: “She’s one of them. She’s pro-union…She checks all the boxes for the left.” Chavez-DeRemer was also one of only three Republicans to co-sponser the union-friendly PRO Act, which ultimately did not move forward.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker voices her concerns about the nominee’s liberal labor policy record and highlights the need for Trump to appoint a free-market Labor Secretary.
The following is an excerpt from the above video:
There are only three Republicans in Congress who voted, who actually co-sponsored the PRO Act. So it was really surprising to see President-elect Trump announce his intentions to nominate one of them, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, to be his secretary of labor.
In a November 21 letter to the president-elect, the National Right to Work Committee, their president, Mark Mix, and his team detailed the negative ramifications of the PRO Act. Mix pointed out that Chavez-DeRemer also co-sponsored legislation that would force every state and local government in the country to bargain with union bosses who claim to represent government workers.
Ironically, these government unions are gearing up to resist President Trump’s attempt to reform this federal bureaucracy.
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