New White House Labor Adviser Isn’t Looking For a Fight: Q&A

Celeste Drake is drawing on her experience at the nation’s largest federation of unions to bring the White House’s labor agenda to fruition.

Drake is wearing “two hats,” as she put it, working both as the National Economic Council’s labor expert and as “Made in America” director for the White House Office of Management and Budget.

In an interview with Bloomberg Law—her first since taking the job as Biden’s top labor adviser in July—she said she plans to use her experience at the AFL-CIO, where she was a trade and globalization policy specialist, to deliver on the president’s goal to ...