Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members.

Chavez-DeRemer, who recently represented Oregon in Congress, has often been one of the lone Republican supporters of various pro-union bills and has advocated for improvements to the child care system.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the Labor Department could signal a break from the GOP’s traditionally adversarial stance toward unions. Chavez-DeRemer, who narrowly lost her re-election bid to represent an Oregon district this month,

Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Labor is the latest sign that his second term may be trickier for businesses to predict than his first. Trump picked Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a Republican from Oregon,