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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer and what that could mean for American workers.
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0:48.1 | I'm Megna Chakrabardi, and this is The Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
0:49.0 | Hello, there, Jack. |
0:50.2 | Hello, Magna. |
0:53.8 | Okay, we are at episode 60. What's your headline? Union made. Union. Okay, so tell me more. |
0:59.5 | Well, we're talking about the Department of Labor, which was made to satisfy the demands, really for a half a century of labor unions for, quote, |
1:11.4 | a voice in the cabinet. |
1:14.5 | Trump's nominee to be that voice is Laurie Chavez de Ramer, |
1:21.4 | a one-term Oregon congresswoman, |
1:25.1 | who is an anomaly in the Trump cabinet because she does not answer to |
1:31.5 | this characterization by the Financial Times, which calls the cabinet a cabal of narcissists, |
1:38.6 | oddballs, geniuses, and delusionals. She's none of those things. Moreover, important to point out, unlike |
1:46.7 | Christine Noem, who's been nominated to head the Department of Homeland Security, there is no |
1:53.5 | record of Chavez de Ramer shooting a puppy. Let's just get that on the, let's just get that on the record, if we might. |
2:04.4 | And the other anomaly about her is that she's sort of pro-labor. She was one of three |
2:10.6 | GOP co-sponsors of a bill that would protect the right to organize, very important bill for unions, |
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