; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (H) to establish a Labor Secretariat, led and staffed by experienced and qualified experts in labor rights, labor standards, labor economics, or human rights, to— (i) address transnational issues relating to labor; (ii) monitor and enforce labor-related trade agreement provisions; and (iii) provide research relating to the effects of the trade agreement on jobs and communities in the countries covered by the agreement; (I) to empower the staff of the Secretariat, with respect to the countries covered by the agreement, to— (i) visit and monitor workplaces; (ii) interview workers without employer or government monitoring or interference; (iii) recommend changes to workplace conditions to comply with labor-related provisions of the agreement as a result of information obtained through such visits, monitoring, and interviews; and (iv) observe and assist the officials of relevant agencies or departments of the governments of any such countries in implementing and enforcing the labor-related provisions of the agreement; (J) to provide that the Secretariat shall have the authority to originate and pursue dispute settlements under the enforcement procedures of the agreement when it determines that meaningful progress toward the implementation of the recommendations of the Secretariat has ceased or that a signatory to the agreement is persistently out of compliance with one or more of the labor-related provisions of the agreement; (K) to require arbitrators presiding over a dispute brought by the Secretariat pursuant to such authority to— (i) have expertise in international labor rights and standards or international human rights protections; (ii) base their decisions on guidance from the ILO, including in the form of conventions, reports, or recommendations