Labor Secretary Nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer Must Hold the Line for Working People

President-elect Trump’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Labor, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, has shown that she understands the importance of labor union membership and the right to collectively bargain by co-sponsoring the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO) and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act.

This sets her apart from Trump’s other nominees and his close advisor Elon Musk. Many of those nominees helped draft Project 2025, a handbook for the second Trump Administration, which proposes to allow management-run fake unions, repeal of overtime pay and minimum wage laws, elimination of health and safety standards, and abolishing the rights of public sector workers to join unions. Musk has called for the wholesale elimination of federal regulations, including those that protect workers from abuse, exploitation and harm.

Promoting the welfare and rights of working and retired Americans is the central purpose of the U.S. Department of Labor. The two most recent Labor Secretaries, Marty Walsh and Julie Su, have done an outstanding job advancing that mission. We are counting on Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to hold the line for working people and reject attempts by anti-worker extremists in the Trump Administration and Congress to enact Project 2025 and endanger workers’  livelihoods and lives. 

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