Credit where credit is due, this is a really, really good hire by Trump. Couldn’t have made a better pick, and pleasantly surprising given some of his other cabinet choices. Who is Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the pro-union Latina picked by Trump to be his Labor secretary?
Trump had a number of people that most would have deemed competent in his first admin. Actually he definitely had more competent cabinet members the first go around and it’s not even close. I don’t think recognizing a single pick makes one a “convert”. It only shows independent critical thinking. This woman sounds like a very pro-Union leftist. Not sure how she reconciles being in this cabinet, perhaps in her mind being a maximalist for union protections is what it’s all about, and she is willing to screw over non-union (or look the other way). Who knows, as I said can only guess how she reconciles in her mind. Not that it matters. I had to think for a second if I even knew who Biden’s labor Secretary was. The answer on that was no. He’s had 3 and I didn’t know them at all. I do recall Trump had McConnel’s wife in this spot (Elaine Chao). So on the surface this would seem a more sensible pick compared to someone like Chao who we would assume is 100% out of touch with workers if not working against them.
In the end Trump's selection of Chavez-DeRemer will be relatively meaningless. Just my opinion the second Trump Administration will be as anti-union as the first possibly even more so. Trump's selection to chair the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will be far more significant than his selection of the Secretary of Labor given that it's the responsibility of the NLRB to settle disputes between labor and management and to interpret labor law and the Donald's selection to head the NLRB will most likely be an attorney with a long history of representing management possibly a law professor or an economist with a strongly pro-management bias. Trump's nominees for judicial vacancies will also be as anti-labor/pro-management as were the judges he selected during his first administration. Trump's Anti-Worker Record During a live conversation on X with Elon Musk on August 12, Donald Trump said striking workers should be fired.1 Trump packed the courts with anti-labor judges who have made the entire public sector “right to work for less” in an attempt to financially weaken unions by increasing the number of freeloaders.2 Trump stacked the National Labor Relations Board with anti-union appointees who side with employers in contract disputes and support companies who delay and stall union elections, misclassify workers to take away their freedom to join a union, and silence workers.3 Trump made it easier for employers to fire or penalize workers who speak up for better pay and working conditions or exercise the right to strike.4
If she remains pro-union and has any self-respect she will either resign or be canned by Trump within less than two years. Keep in mind that during his first term Trump went through more cabinet officials and cabinet level appointees than virtually any other president in history or at least in the last one hundred years.
Unions have always been protectionist. I seriously doubt that as far as unions are concerned is his policy of protectionism on steroids will offset his support of anti-union policies.
No doubt. The skilled labor pool for manufacturing is limited. Tim Cook warned him about this years ago. Maybe he is trying to start his freedom cities for manufacturing centers in Red States and will subsidize.
his cabinets are set up for conflict to keep him entertained. he likes to see people fighting and backstabbing and competing to impress him the most
