text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Fair International Labor Standards 
  in Trade and Investment Act of 2001''.
  
  SEC. 2. OBJECTIVES; DUTIES OF ILAB.
  
      (a) Objectives.--The policy objectives of Congress with respect to 
  international labor issues are as follows:
              (1) Fundamental economic, political, social, technological, 
          and cross-cultural changes are proceeding in ways that 
          accelerate global integration and interdependence.
              (2) The United States national interest is served by more 
          open markets, expanding trade, and investment liberalization 
          within the community of nations, balanced by increased respect 
          and enforcement of universal human rights as defined in the 
          Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ILO Declaration 
          of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
              (3) The American people believe that more open 
          international trade, investment, and market access are not ends 
          in themselves, but means for attaining greater economic 
          justice, social responsibility, and sustainable development in 
          both the United States and the global economy.
              (4) A principal objective of the international economic 
          policy of the United States is to spread the benefits of trade 
          and investment liberalization as broadly as possible within all 
          trading nations and not just between them.
              (5) United States international economic policy should 
          emphasize the following 4 principal goals:
                      (A) The achievement of steadily increasing 
                  purchasing power throughout the global economy in 
                  tandem with expanding global productive capacity that 
                  leads to--
                              (i) the elimination of abusive child labor;
                              (ii) rising living standards in developing 
                          and developed national economies; and
                              (iii) the acceleration of broad-based 
                          consumer markets within all trading nations.
                      (B) The discouragement of economic development by 
                  any nation based on the commercial exploitation of 
                  child labor and the systematic denial of 
                  internationally recognized worker rights and core labor 
                  standards, in order to gain illegitimate competitive 
                  advantage in international trade and investment.
                      (C) The expansion of global trade and investment, 
                  not protectionism, based on growing public confidence 
                  that the rules governing international flows of 
                  capital, goods, services, technology, and labor are 
                  structured, in law and practice, to end abusive child 
                  labor and promote the rights and interests of working 
                  people as well as those of other parties to 
                  international agreements.
                      (D) The alleviation of poverty, hunger, abusive 
                  child labor, and illiteracy through the empowerment of 
                  working people in all trading nations so that they can 
                  more fully participate in policy-making and benefit 
                  equitably from the fruits of their labor in the conduct 
                  of global trade, investment, and commerce.
      (b) Duties of ILAB.--Under the guidance of the Secretary of Labor, 
  the International Labor Affairs Bureau shall have the primary 
  responsibility for advancing the policy objectives and goals set out in 
  subsection (a) and for coordinating all related United States 
  activities.
  
  SEC. 3. FUNCTIONS.
  
      The Secretary of Labor is authorized to act through the 
  International Labor Affairs Bureau, to carry out the following 
  activities to promote fair international standards in trade and 
  investment:
              (1) Represent the United States in the International Labor 
          Organization (ILO) and support that Organization's activities, 
          consulting with the organizations that represent employers and 
          employees in that body.
              (2) Provide bilateral and multilateral technical assistance 
          to enable developing countries in particular to--
                      (A) implement core labor standards;
                      (B) strengthen governmental capacity to enforce 
                  national labor laws and protect internationally 
                  recognized worker rights; and
                      (C) develop policies to assist workers who are 
                  adversely affected by shifts in trade and investments 
                  flows, structural adjustments, and macroeconomic 
                  changes within national economies and the global 
                  economy respectively.
              (3) Provide bilateral aid to foreign countries to eliminate 
          abusive child labor and other trade and investment-related 
          worker rights violations and to support workforce development 
          programs to foster broad-based, equitable, and sustainable 
          economic development in recipient countries.
              (4) Compile and report annually to Congress, on the extent 
          to which each foreign country that has a trade and investment 
          agreement with the United States protects the free exercise of 
          internationally recognized worker rights, as required under 
          United States law, and promotes core labor standards as 
          embodied in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and 
          Rights at Work.
              (5) Conduct research and analysis on the relationship 
          between internationally recognized worker rights and core labor 
          standards and the conduct of international, trade, commerce, 
          and investment and related trends.
  
  SEC. 4. GRANTS.
  
      The Secretary of Labor may award grants and enter into cooperative 
  agreements and contracts to carry out the functions described in 
  section 3.
  
  SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS.
  
      There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secreatry of Labor 
  such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
target: Fair International Labor Standards in Trade and Investment Act of 2001 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, through the International Labor Affairs Bureau, to promote fair international standards in trade and investment by: (1) representing the United States in the International Labor Organization (ILO), supporting ILO activities, and consulting with organizations that represent employers and employees in ILO; (2) providing bilateral and multilateral technical assistance to enable developing countries in particular to implement core labor standards, strengthen governmental capacity to enforce national labor laws and protect internationally recognized worker rights, and develop policies to assist workers who are adversely affected by shifts in trade and investments flows, structural adjustments, and macroeconomic changes within national economies and the global economy; (3) providing bilateral aid to foreign countries to eliminate abusive child labor and other trade and investment-related worker rights violations and to support workforce development programs to foster broad-based, equitable, and sustainable economic development in recipient countries; (4) compiling and reporting annually to Congress on the extent to which each foreign country that has a trade and investment agreement with the United States protects the free exercise of internationally recognized worker rights as required under U.S. law, and promotes core labor standards as embodied in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; (5) conducting research and analysis on the relationship between internationally recognized worker rights and core labor standards and the conduct of international, trade, commerce, and investment and related trends; and (6) making grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to carry out such functions.
feat_title: A bill to provide permanent authorization for International Labor Affairs Bureau to continue and enhance their work to alleviate child labor and improve respect for internationally recognized worker rights and core labor standards, and for other purposes.