Trump labor secretary nominee faces some GOP skepticism ahead of her hearing
Source: NBC News
Feb. 19, 2025, 5:00 AM EST / Updated Feb. 19, 2025, 12:46 PM EST
WASHINGTON — A Republican-led Senate committee held a confirmation hearing Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer. "In every role, my priority has been clear: to fight for the American worker And the business that drive our economy," she said in her opening remarks. Chavez-DeRemer, a former congresswoman from Oregon who served one term, is an unconventional pick for a GOP president.
She supported a bill called the PRO Act, a top priority of labor unions, and is endorsed by the Teamsters Union. “Working people need someone with her experience leading the agency that is tasked with protecting workers, creating good union jobs, and rebuilding our nation’s middle class,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien, who spoke at the Republican National Convention last year, said in a statement. “The Teamsters are grateful to President Trump for putting American workers first by nominating Rep. Chavez-DeRemer to this important role.”
Several of the senators' opening questions zeroed in on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2023, which Chavez-DeRemer co-sponsored during her time in the House.
The bill aimed to promote unions' ability to organize, alter independent contractor classifications and weaken right-to-work laws in states. Right-to-work laws are often characterized as employees not having to join a union or pay union dues as an employment condition. Chavez-DeRemer addressed her previous support for the PRO Act during her opening statement, saying the bill provided a way to have conversations about needed updates to labor laws.
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The first Trump pick I agree with.
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