New York (AP) – Union leaders have described President Donald Trump’s candidate to head the Ministry of Labor as a friend of organized labor. At the beginning of their hearing on Wednesday, the advocates of the rights of the employees are facing whether Lori Chavez-Deremer can maintain this reputation in an administration that has released thousands of federal employees.
Chavez deremer, a former Republican member of the Congress from Oregon and former mayor of a diminutive town on the edge of the Liberal-like Portland confirmation process.
During their only term as a congress member, Chavez-deremer’s Voting Record earned their powerful union support. Some political observers suspected that Trump chose her as his work secretary that voters who are members of work organizations or are connected to them. She is the daughter of a Teamster member.
Before she lost her house for re-election in November, Chavez deremer supported the Pro law, law, which enables more workers to carry out union organization campaigns and punish companies that have the rights of employees. The draft law, one of the priorities of former President Joe Biden, passed the house in 2021, but did not achieve the Senate.
If it were confirmed as a secretary, Chavez deremer would be responsible for the almost 16,000 full-time employees of the Ministry of Labor and a proposed budget of $ 13.9 billion in the 2025 financial year. It would determine priorities that affect the wages of employees, the ability to union and the ability to union and union and the union and the union and to have an impact on the health and security as well as the rights of employers to dismiss employees.
However, it is unclear how much power Chavez deremer will be able to take off with Trump’s cabinet to output the US government and the size of the federal employees. During his first month, the President frozen trillion dollars of federal financing and offered most federal workers Buyouts.
His administration last week almost all of the probation assistants who had not yet gained any protection of the public service. The billionaire Elon Musk, who heads Trump’s efficiency of the government, demanded the removal of entire agencies.
“The Ministry of Labor is the agency, in which people should wake up every day in the structure and think about how they can improve the life of working people” workers’ rights. “It is quite possible that the billionaire, who is embedded in the Trump government, who is so interested in destroying the institutions, regardless of what the secretary who wants to destroy the institutions will be interested to train the Ministry of Labor. “
In January, Trump released two out of three democratic commissioners who worked in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal authority who enforced civil rights at the workplace. He also released the incumbent chairman of the National Labor Relations Board Gwynne Wilcox, the first black woman who acted as a NLRB member, and General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. Wilcox sued the Trump administration and argued that the federal law protects it from arbitrarily rejected dismissed.
The Republicans forwarded the working class voters. Despite decades of unions that deal with Democrats and Trump’s obvious support for the discharge of striking workers, his populist voice received voices from the members of the union unions.
The Democrats Kamala Harris in the presidential breed supported many vast unions, including the AFL-CIO and the United Auto Workers. The international brotherhood of Teamsters refused to support a candidate, and the TeamSTERS leader Sean O’Brien spoke on the Republican National Convention. The teamers supported the nomination of Chavez deremer.
Some observers expect the Chavez deremer to receive more votes from Senate Democrats than some of Trump’s other cabinet selection. But the same positions that have won their support from unions can make you more tough sales groups with corporate groups. The American Trucking Associations and the International Franchise Association said that she hopes that she would reject her earlier support for the Prohandlung by working on lifting her up.
Emily Twarog, Associate Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, said a question mark was about the working secretary, even if she received the approval of the Senate Committee.
In view of the ongoing efforts of the current administration to limit or eliminate certain government functions, “how much can you actually do to help workers in the Ministry of Labor if only limited funds and restrictions are available for the work done?” Said Twarog.
