What to know about Trump's labor secretary nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer

[ad_1] President-elect Donald Trump's decide for labor secretary is without doubt one of the few Republican lawmakers to signal on to the Defending the Proper to Arrange Act -- in any other case often known as the PRO Act -- laws that will make it simpler for employees to unionize, and her nomination is being applauded by some key labor unions.

Trump introduced Friday his plans to appoint Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to move the Labor Division, a put up that requires Senate affirmation.

"Lori's robust help from each the Enterprise and Labor communities will be certain that the Labor Division can unite People of all backgrounds behind our Agenda for unprecedented Nationwide Success - Making America Richer, Wealthier, Stronger and extra Affluent than ever earlier than!" Trump stated in a press release.

Chavez-DeRemer is the primary Republican girl and one of many first two Latinas to serve in Congress from the state of Oregon. The previous Blissful Valley mayor and businesswoman misplaced her bid to regain Oregon's fifth District earlier this month.

Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, accompanied by Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer and Home Majority Chief Rep. Steve Scalise, speaks at a information convention on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 25, 2023.

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The freshman congresswoman serves on the Home Schooling and the Workforce Committee, which began because the committee on schooling and labor over 150 years in the past. If calls to dismantle the federal Division of Schooling are profitable throughout the second Trump administration, Chavez-DeRemer might probably oversee education schemes which are redistributed to the labor division.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) has launched laws with a multi-year roadmap to get rid of the Division of Schooling and earmarked the division's tasks for the Departments of Inside, Treasury, Well being and Human Providers, State, and Labor based on the invoice textual content.

Chairwoman Virginia Foxx launched the next assertion congratulating her colleague on the congressional committee.

"I sit up for seeing a Division of Labor that embraces free enterprise insurance policies so employees and job creators can flourish. It is time the heavy hand of the federal authorities obtained out of the way in which. As a substitute of punitive, overzealous, job-killing rules it is time to unleash America's ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit."

The number of Chavez-DeRemer can also be being applauded by some key labor unions.

The Nationwide Schooling Affiliation (NEA), the nation's largest skilled worker group, applauded the nomination.

"Throughout her time in Congress, Lori Chavez-DeRemer voted in opposition to gutting the Division of Schooling, in opposition to faculty vouchers, and in opposition to cuts to schooling funding. She cosponsored the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, the PRO Act, and different pro-student, pro-public faculty, pro-worker laws," NEA President Becky Pringle stated in a press release.

The PRO Act would develop labor protections relating to employees' rights to kind unions within the office. Chavez-DeRemer, who signed on to co-sponsor the invoice this summer season, is one among simply three Republicans within the Home to take action.

"This file stands in stark distinction to Donald Trump's anti-worker, anti-union file, and his excessive Undertaking 2025 agenda that will intestine office protections, make it more durable for employees to unionize, and diminish the voice of working individuals," Pringle added.

She added, "Educators and dealing households throughout the nation shall be watching Lori Chavez-DeRemer as she strikes via the affirmation course of and hope to listen to a pledge from her to proceed to face up for employees and college students as her file suggests, not blind loyalty to the Undertaking 2025 agenda."

Sean O'Brien, president of the Teamsters union, who spoke on the Republican Nationwide Conference in July, had reportedly been pushing for Trump to appoint Chavez-DeRemer to the put up.