Labor Chief Nominee Walsh Begins Prep as Names Emerge for No. 2

The Biden transition team is pivoting from nominating Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary to getting the former construction union leader up to speed on the U.S. Labor Department and reviewing several labor policy veterans to serve as his deputy.

President-elect Joe Biden is still interested in offering the deputy labor secretary post to California Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Julie Su, who lawmakers and worker advocates previously were pushing to get the top job, said sources familiar with the process. But Su has expressed reservations about accepting the No. 2 role, and hasn’t definitively said whether she’d ...