Chavez-DeRemer had the support of the Teamsters president, and her confirmation could signal a shift in the party toward a more open embrace of organized labor.

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The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on whether to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as U.S. labor secretary, a Cabinet position ...

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DeRemer, Oregon’s first Republican congresswoman and Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Labor, was raised in California by a Mexican American Teamster. Her father, Richard Chavez, who ...

But McCarthy had an ulterior motive for the hearing. Hlavaty was a member of the left-wing American Labor Party, and may have been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s. Almost immediately ...