President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary told lawmakers during her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday that she no longer supports a pro-union piece of legislation challenging states’ right-to-work laws that she once backed as a lawmaker in Oregon.
Former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) previously represented a swing district that includes parts of Portland. While in Congress, she co-sponsored the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a sweeping labor reform bill aimed at making it easier for workers to unionize. The bill passed the House in 2021 but stalled in the Senate.
