Biden’s Labor Transition Team Stacked with Obama Veterans (1)

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is appointing a who’s who of senior Obama-era U.S. Labor Department officials to help it prepare for the transfer of power at labor-focused agencies.

The list includes Obama deputy labor secretaries Chris Lu and Seth Harris along with several other former DOL officials: Solicitor of Labor Patricia Smith; Deputy Solicitor Deborah Greenfield; Chief of Staff Seema Nanda; Deputy Chief of Staff Raj Nayak; and Wage and Hour Division senior policy adviser Tanya Goldman.

Biden, whose blue-collar roots and support for unions are central to his political brand, is widely expected among policy insiders to shift ...