Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the Teamsters, the biggest boosters of former U.S. Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Republican-Oregon) as Republican President Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary, cheered as the U.S. Senate voted her into the job by a bipartisan 67-to-32 margin. However, the National AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) were more skeptical - questioning whether Chavez-DeRemer would really control Labor Policy under the Worker-hostile Trump Administration. For example, National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said Chavez-DeRemer had endorsed the PRO (Protecting The Right To Organize) Act last August, but only after it was dead in the water. A Senate GOP filibuster, backed by corporate cash and campaign contributions, killed it. Chavez-DeRemer herself had said she endorsed it only to gain “a seat at” the Congressional bargaining table if it ever passed. Said AFT President Randi Weingarten: “She must help her party decide if the Department will fulfill its mission of promoting the interests of Working People - including respecting Collective Bargaining and Organizing - or whether it becomes captive to the interests of the Oligarch Class.

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