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Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Visits Electric Boat in Groton on America at Work Tour

August 30, 2025 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:01:19

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What happened

A local news report published August 30, 2025 covered Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s visit to Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut, according to the Department of Labor. The report said the secretary was on a listening tour of all 50 states she calls America at Work, swinging through all six New England states over four days, and that by the following day she would have visited 32 states, as stated in the report.

The report described Electric Boat as Connecticut’s largest private employer, building and maintaining submarines for the U.S. Navy, and said the secretary was impressed by its role, as stated there. Chavez-DeRemer said the growth expected over the next several years because of maritime investment would be key for communities like Groton, bringing mortgage-paying jobs and more money in workers’ pockets in what she called the blue-collar boom, as she stated it. The report attributed workers’ optimism to the administration’s investment in infrastructure and government projects leading to more high-paying jobs, as stated there. The secretary is not on this site’s tracked-officials roster, so the page carries no official tags.

Why it matters

The visit documents the Labor Department’s stated maritime-workforce pitch — submarine construction at Electric Boat as the local face of the administration’s blue-collar jobs argument, as the secretary stated it.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Visits Groton, Connecticut”, 2025-08-30 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-08-30). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.