{"id":2714,"date":"2024-11-20T21:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/employers-group-tees-off-on-chavez-deremer-amid-labor-secretary-chatter\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T21:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:03:37","slug":"employers-group-tees-off-on-chavez-deremer-amid-labor-secretary-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/employers-group-tees-off-on-chavez-deremer-amid-labor-secretary-chatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers&#8217; group tees off on Chavez-DeRemer amid Labor secretary chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An employer group is sounding the alarm about the possibility that President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Labor secretary, zeroing in on the Oregon Republican&#8217;s support for legislation that has been a top priority for unions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PRO Act would deprive employees of their right to a secret ballot and their privacy in union representation elections,&#8221; Kristen Swearingen, president of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would also impose overly broad liability for \u2018joint employment,\u2019 limiting opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs, and create rigid standards for independent contractors, undermining workers\u2019 ability to work independently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chavez-DeRemer emerged as a possible pick to head the Labor Department after she was backed by Teamsters President Sean O&#8217;Brien and some of her fellow GOP lawmakers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/19\/congress\/obriens-pick-for-labor-secretary-00190495\" target=\"_blank\">POLITICO reported Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was one of the only Republicans to back the PRO Act and was endorsed by some of her state&#8217;s major unions in her recent reelection bid, which she narrowly lost to Democratic state Rep. Janelle Bynum.<\/p>\n<p>If President-elect Donald Trump were to tap her for Labor secretary, it would be a stark departure from the employer-friendly labor officials who worked for his first administration.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the PRO Act, Chavez-DeRemer also co-sponsored legislation that made it easier for public safety workers to collectively bargain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An employer group is sounding the alarm about the possibility that President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Labor secretary, zeroing in on the Oregon Republican&#8217;s support for legislation that has been a top priority for unions. &#8220;The PRO Act would deprive employees of their right to a secret ballot and their privacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}