A Cabinet Pick Gone Wrong
Chavez-DeRemer a bad choice for Labor Secretary
President-Elect Donald Trump has made some excellent selections for his incoming administration’s cabinet positions and agencies. Kristi Noem will lead the Department of Homeland Security. Tom Homan will be the new “Border Czar.” Doug Burgum was selected as Secretary of Interior and will head a new council to guide national energy policy. Jay Bhattacharya will lead the National Institutes of Health, which controls funding for most medical research in the country.
Trump’s initial choice for U.S. Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, was not so good. Fortunately, Gaetz has withdrawn to be replaced by a much better choice, Pam Bondi. I’d like to call out another poor nominee, this one for the position of Labor Secretary.
U.S. Representative (R) from Oregon Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been nominated for Labor Secretary. Incidentally, she just lost re-election in her state after serving only one term. Chavez-DeRemer would be a very bad choice for Labor Secretary. Here’s why.
She has been promoted by Sean O’Brien, president of the Teamsters union. Like many union bosses, O’Brien is in favor of forcing all workers to pay union dues even if they don’t want to join a union.
When did unions become so authoritarian? Many unions have become infiltrated by communists over the past 100 years, as I detailed in “Marxism in America: An insider’s view.”
She is a favorite of Randi Weingarden, another union boss—in this case, in charge of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers unions in the nation. Weingarden is an opponent of school choice, so anyone endorsed by her is bad news for America and most Americans.
She endorses the Pro Act. This bill has not yet passed Congress. According to the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal:
The bill would override right-to-work laws in 26 states that give workers a choice of joining a union. It would also subvert secret-ballot elections, which protect workers from union intimidation.
The Pro Act would also ban gig jobs and make it more difficult for independent contractors and franchise businesses to work. If enacted, the bill would make it much harder for small businesses to succeed. The bill is very pro-union and extremely anti-worker.
She supports legislation that would require states, counties and cities to bargain with government worker unions.
She is opposed by the American Trucking Association, which recently stated that her “anti-trucking policies threaten the right of independent truckers to choose their own career path.”
Given the choice, more and more American workers are opting out of labor unions these days. Chavez-Redemer doesn’t want workers to have that choice. She supports policies that would give labor bosses more power and take it away from American workers. In doing so, she would not be acting in the best interests of the majority of Americans who have just elected Donald Trump. Her nomination should be withdrawn.
If her name is not withdrawn, write your senators and ask them vote against Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Having her as Labor Secretary would be taking our nation in the wrong direction.
Labor unions are the illegitimate child of communism and organized crime.
If Matt Gaetz and Kash Patel are rejected but Chavez-DeRemer is confirmed then we will know that the election win was just the result of another RINO lie and false promise.
Thanks for the heads-up. Ms C-D sounds like a real loser in six different ways.
Labor unions can be great in certain places, at certain times, and the US probably needs more of the good ones.
They just don’t belong in schools and government bureaucracies, at least not in the way they are now configured and purposed.
Some unions desperately need to be reformed - maybe start with rotating people out of “leadership” positions every year or two, and then prevent politicians from negotiating wages with the people who are their biggest donors, except for maybe the police, firefighters and similar first responders.