Thea Lee
@TheaMeiLee
International labor rights advocate. Deputy Undersecretary for Int'l Labor Affairs at @ILAB_DOL. Formerly @EconomicPolicy and @AFLCIO. Views my own. She/her.
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23-01-2012 19:07:17
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During AA and NHPI Heritage Month, I'll be highlighting the amazing work that AA and NHPI staff at U.S. Department of Labor do every day.
Meet Thea from @USDOL's Bureau of International Labor Affairs, who works to protect workers' rights around the world.
Wait, it's #OlderAmericansMonth ? And also #AANHPIHeritageMonth ? And #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth ? Trifecta. Everybody, please be nice to me.
On #InternationalWorkersDay , we celebrate the collective power of workers to effect positive change. #WorkerVoice is key to identifying problems, proposing solutions, negotiating agreements and holding parties accountable – democracy in action, at work. dol.gov/WorkerVoice
HEARING NEXT WEEK: 'Factories and Fraud in the PRC: How Human Rights Violations Make Reliable Audits Impossible' with Thea Lee, Scott Nova, Adrian Zenz, and Jim Wormington.
Livestream info ---> cecc.gov/events/hearing…
What is #WorkerVoice ? We did the research; now is the time for us all to act on it. Read more: blog.dol.gov/2024/04/10/mak…
Checking out the solar eclipse today? In the meantime, we won’t leave you in the dark on what we’re doing to defend worker rights globally: dol.gov/ilab #SolarEclipse2024
The US economy performs much better during Democratic presidential administrations than during Republican ones, according to a new report from EPI's Josh Bivens
epi.org/publication/ec…
Check out this deep dive report from Steven Greenhouse on our new, groundbreaking #WorkerVoice research, which includes thoughts from our own Deputy Undersecretary Thea Lee: tcf.org/content/commen…
My latest Economic Policy Institute research with Katherine deCourcy finds:
· Low-wage workers’ wages surged between 2019 and 2023 after decades of slow growth
· The fastest wage growth over the last four years has been among historically disadvantaged groups
Full report:
epi.org/publication/sw…
Union organizers and AFL-CIO state & local leaders met with Ambassador Katherine Tai, The White House Gender Policy Council Director Jennifer Klein, Thea Lee & Erika Dinkel-Smith this afternoon to discuss how the Joe Biden administration is prioritizing women's issues on & off the job.
I spoke with migrant workers in the fishing industry, Thea Lee Global Labor Justice (GLJ-ILRF) Environmental Justice Foundation Business & Human Rights about the violence, slavery, and abuse rampant in the industry and the efforts to rein in these abuses
theguardian.com/business/2024/…
Our wonderful colleague Marcia Eugenio is leaving us, and we need to find someone wonderful to fill her extraordinary shoes as director of our Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking. Please share the job posting far and wide. Many thanks!
Today in Taiwan, @USDOL's Bureau of International Labor Affairs head Thea Lee met with union representatives, including a migrant fishers’ union, to learn from their experiences and assure them that we are raising labor rights issues with policymakers and making the case for #WorkerVoice . #BaitToPlate
.Acting Secretary Julie Su and Yolanda Díaz signed a joint statement highlighting shared concerns about algorithmic bias in automated systems and artificial intelligence that can lead to workplace discrimination of historically underserved and vulnerable groups. dol.gov/newsroom/relea…
.@USDOL's Bureau of International Labor Affairs head Thea Lee visited a fishing port in Taiwan today to see firsthand how labor inspections are performed on distant water fishing vessels. #AIT #BaitToPlate
