Surprise, Surprise: Former representative of Laurie Chavez-Deremer supports the laws on the “right to work” anti-Union and rejects the national campaign to the minimum wage.
Laurie Chavez-Dareer, President Donald Trump, to head the Department of Labor, testifies during the hearings on confirmation before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions at the Senate Office on the Capitol Hill on February 19, 2025.
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When Donald Trump nominated former US representative Laurie Chavez-Deremer to perform the duties of work secretary, the story appeared that the 47th president of the breakthrough from the republican Orthodoxy and choosing the head of the work department, which, which In fact, it can be sympathetic to the workers and their unions. In the end, as a member of the House Law on negotiations.
President of the International Brotherhood Teamsters Sean O’Brien, who appealed to the Republican National Convention last year and sought to develop labor relations with the Trump administration, greeted nomination and state This Chavez-deremer will be all about “working work, creating good trade union jobs and the restoration of the middle class of our country”. On the eve of confirmation of Chavez-Deremer’s hearings before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, Labor and Pensions, the media call it as “The choice of Trump’s trade unions“And” and “Donald Trump’s work secretary to choose“
But serious observers Often a warlike attitude of Trump The organized work remained skeptical. “The Chavez-Deremer Record believes that it understands the value of a policy that strengthens the rights and economic security of workers,” Rebecca Dixon, President of the National Employment Project ,,, – Note After the president’s elected, he discovered his choice in November. “But the agenda of the Trump administration, in principle, diverges with these principles, threatening to refuse to defend the workplace, to undermine collective talks and to prioritize corporate income over the needs of the workers. It will be here that its true commitment to workers will be checked.”
On Wednesday, when Chavez-Dareer finally appeared before the Committee on Help, she was tested. Unhappiness.
Her At the beginning of the statement He saw that the nominee gave herself from the act, which she rejected as “imperfect” and her previous trade union positions. Instead, she said without hesitation that “my task will be a vision of President Trump’s policy.”
After the interrogation of the senators began, everything deteriorated. Chavez-Dareer asked Senator Rand Paul-Kentuk-Republican of zero rating With AFL-Cio for the last Congress, the so-called “right to work” laws, which began widely adopted in the 1940s when segregatists in the southern states sought block the organization of a multi -union, And who devastated the organized work. Chavez-Dareer said that “fully” states that “wants to defend her right to work.”
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It was a bizarre way to make a controversial statement that made Paul seek explanations on the matter.
“So you no longer support the aspect of Pro Act, which would abolish state laws?” he asked.
“Yes,” Chavez-deremer replied quietly.
“That’s it?” Paul asked.
“Yes,” the nominee said.
From this exchange, Chavez-Dareer noted himself as a tougher nominee against the association for the secretary of work than most previous passengers of this post. Remember that Republicans such as Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon They came out of their way to appoint appointments for work and sign a service legislation, and that even conservatives such as Ronald Reagan, a former president of the actors union, was opened critic Laws on proper work. Although Reagan end up being remembered for firing with more than 11,000 spectacular air controllers obvious opponent National laws on work.
Of course, today’s Republicans moved to the extremes of work that would not be unthinkable many years ago. But during his service in Congress, Chavez-Dareer was located as a Republican who was ready to push away from this extremism. This is one of the reasons she was able to win Union support For her, it is ultimately unsuccessful application for re -election in the House in 2024. Some trade unions and some Democrats in Congress were also open to nominate her as a secretary of work.
But her testimony of the Committee on the certificate made it clear that Chavez-Deremer would not be confirmed by the ally of workers or trade unions that represent them. Instead, she will have exactly one ally – a boss living on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1600.
Trump’s nominee did not just remove himself from the act of acting – who to say that her sponsorship support does not mean that she would have voted for it in the ward. She also accepted republicans anti -Union on many questions.
Shut According to Senator Vermont Bernie Sanders on the violation of Trump on the dismissal of Gwynne Wilcox, the first black woman who became a member of the National Council for Labor Relations, during the NVRB ability to defend the rights of labor, showed Chavez-Sergei what was the first loyalty to Trump, Saying the Committee: “President Trump has the right to exercise his executive power as he sees in consultation With his team. ” Asked if she would defend existing labor laws from threats on the part of the White House, and whether it will defend confidential information in the databases of the department and records of the inappropriate, subjected to the notorious opposed Elon Musk, the work of Trump is simply – Note“I do not believe that the president asks me to break the law.”
Chavez-Dareer refused To support the increase in the minimum wage or pay the vacation for workers. And of course she is napologically declared“The right to work is the basic principle of labor legislation, where states have the right to choose if they want to be the state of proper work, and it must be protected.”
It was a distant cry from the historical assessment of critics on the right work, such as Reverend Martin Luther King. Unions for decades cited comment leader of civil rights, argument.
In our glorious struggle for civil rights, we must protect him from being false with false slogans, such as a “right to work”. It is a law to deprive us of our civil rights and work rights. Its purpose is to destroy trade unions and freedom of the collective negotiations, at which trade unions improved wages and working conditions of all … Where these laws were adopted, wages below, employment opportunities are less and no civil rights. We are not going to let them do it to us. We demand that you stop this fraud. Our weapon is our voice.
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History tells us that Republicans often stood on the side of organized work. First President of Republicans Abraham Lincoln, Of course announced.
Work is allowed to and regardless of capital. Capital is just a fruit of work, and it could never exist if the work did not exist. Work is the main capital and deserves much greater consideration.
But Laurie Chavez-Deremer, regardless of her past record, will put work on capital. She made it clear that she was not interested in serving the ally of the workers of America or the trade unions that represent them. In the great struggle between the working class and the class of billionaires Chavez-Dareer, he decided to side with Donald Trump, Elon Musk and oligarchs.
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