Researcher: Effective trade enforcement demands bigger role for ILO

The Biden administration should seek to more deeply integrate the International Labour Organization into its trade policy to help legitimize its labor enforcement efforts, according to a researcher studying the evolution and impacts of labor provisions in U.S. trade agreements. “One of the biggest opportunities I think we have is to work more formally with the International Labour Organization,” Desirée LeClercq, an assistant professor at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and associate faculty member at Cornell Law...