the months since then, advocates for workers have raised concerns about Scalia's record as both a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the corporate law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as well as the Labor Department's chief legal officer during President George W. Bush's administration.

"Scalia becomes the seventh former lobbyist to hold a Cabinet-level post in the Trump administration," according to The Associated Press. "Disclosure records show Scalia was registered in 2010 and 2011 to lobby for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."

As Patriotic Millionaires chair Pearl put it: "At every turn, Eugene Scalia has proven himself to be on the side of big corporations and Wall Street."

"He has never advocated for the workers who struggle for basic rights or for the millions of Americans decimated by the2008 financial crisis," Pearl said. "But as secretary of labor, he will be charged with representing those same interests he's spent nearly two decades ripping apart."

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, whose union had implored the Senate to #RejectScalia, said in a statement Thursday that "it is insulting and dangerous that lifelong union-buster Eugene Scalia is the country's top labor official. His track record is well documented, and it's clear he has yet to find a worker protection he supports or a corporate loophole he opposes."

"Making the Labor Department—whose mission is to defend the rights of workers and enforce the law—a satellite office of a corporate right-wing law firm flies in the face of working people's clearly expressed desires," Trumka added.

Emily Martin, vice president for education and workplace justice at