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    Longtime AFL-CIO Official Takes Up Key Labor Post In Biden Administration

    Former AFL-CIO trade official Thea Lee was appointed by President Biden to lead the section of the Labor Department that oversees labor rights and investigates forced labor and child labor overseas.
    by Andrea Hsu May 10, 2021 1 minute
    Thea Lee was named head of the Labor Department's Bureau of International Labor Affairs, which enforces trade commitments and investigates forced labor and child labor around the world.

    In 2014, when Thea Lee was a top official with the AFL-CIO, she at an economics conference about what America's trade objectives should be. Was the point to lower barriers and increase the level of trade, or was it to use American leverage

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