Jake Johnson at Common Dreams reports President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Labor made clear during her Senate confirmation hearing last week that she no longer supports legislation known as the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO), which would bolster Worker organizing and dramatically weaken Anti-Union Right-to-Work (for less) Laws currently in place in over two dozen States. Asked by U.S. Senator Rand Paul (Republican-Kentucky) whether she still supports the PRO Act - a Bill she co-sponsored while in Congress -former U.S. Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Republican-Oregon) said she signed onto the Bill because she "wanted to be at that table," not because she was fully supportive of its provisions. Chavez-DeRemer answered "yes" when Paul - the lead sponsor of the National Right to Work Act, specifically asked her to confirm that she no longer supports "the aspect of the PRO Act that would have overturned State Right-To-Work Laws." "The right to work is a fundamental tenet of Labor Laws, where States have a right to choose if they want to be a Right-To-Work States," said Chavez-DeRemer. "How very not Pro-Worker of you, Lori," the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO wrote in response.

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