Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he cannot support Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Donald Trump’s pick for Labor Secretary, if she still favors the PRO Act, as he said it would override all the right-to-work state laws and result in a “transformation that would be such an assault on freedom of choice for employees, that you can’t imagine.”
Paul explained that 28 states have right-to-work laws, and when one compares the economics — unemployment, economic growth, and other factors, the right to work states “are just killing it.”
“Most of these are throughout the South. Kentucky became one about five years ago, but there’s at least 28 states, maybe a few more, that are right-to-work. And basically, just as you don’t have compulsory union dues, you can still have unions, you can still do collective bargaining, you just can’t force people out of the workplace if…
