The Biden Administration has appointed Thea Lee to be the Deputy Under Secretary for International Labor Affairs. This is a thoughtful appointment to an agency that has had an important trade role for at least six decades. I wish her good luck in having the labor voice heard in the policy arena. I worked in that Bureau for about nine years in the 1970s and early 1980s and I often found it difficult to get DOL's position heard at USTR, State, and Commerce. I hope that the Biden Administration gives Thea Lee ambassadorial rank in her work with the ILO as the Reagan Administration did with Bob Searby.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-administration-to-name-thea-lee-to-top-labor-department-slot
