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We have a nominee for Secretary of U.S. Department of Labor, who will directly affect every American. Hooray! Let's measure that job. — In 2025 DOL will spend $11 billion employing 17,000 employees. — DOL's staff work in 31 named agencies, boards, bureaus, regional offices, programs, library and internal administration. — Most DOL employees are already union members, primarily the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). — DOL profoundly affects the American work force of 169 million individuals, 10 million employers, and 76 million self-employers, especially including complex employer-employee overlap. — Intense workplace issues the DOL deals with daily: ∆ wages, overtime, benefits & pensions ∆ unionization, voting, persuasion and recruitment ∆ pension security, solvency, and safety ∆ race & work ∆ religion & work ∆ veterans & work ∆ disability & work ∆ men & women & hiring & work ∆ safety, work, & working conditions ∆ mining, miners and mine safety ∆ labor & union & management conflicts ∆ federal contracts and unions ∆ statistics on labor and work — The most charitable description of DOL's employees' mindset might include: warmly affectionate toward unions and unionization; personally risk averse; and uncomprehending of the 76 million Americans who pursue self-employment. Who is the lucky nominee? In November the Teamsters Union president proposed Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a soon-to-be-former one-term Congresswoman and former mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon, a pleasant town of 27,000 southeast of Portland, Oregon. Ms. Chavez-DeRemer has an undergrad degree in business administration. She appears to have played a marketing role in her doctor-husband's firm, which serves 45,000+ patients annually by contracting for specialty anesthesia services at hospitals and clinics in Oregon's Willamette Valley and surrounding communities. Ms. Chavez-DeRemer has no experience in the issues outlined above that the DOL contends with. She's utterly unprepared to deal with the scale of the DOL. Finally, she has repeatedly expressed support for the strongly pro-union PROact imposing unionization on the entire national work force and dissolving the franchise business model. The PROact plunges into collectivizing American work at the moment the American voter stepped firmly in the opposite direction. Ms. Chavez-DeRemer looks utterly unprepared for the challenge she will face in two months. As a practical matter, she will likely end up a hostage of the monolithic agency she has been picked to lead, dependent on her union sponsor for guidance. Her likely ascension to Secretary represents a total union takeover of the US Department of Labor.