People's World: Biden pushes workers to join unions, sets $15 federal minimum wage
Berry Craig
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Saying the National Labor Relations Act’s 86-year-old mandate to have the government encourage worker organizing “has never been fully enforced,” Democratic President Joe Biden created an interagency task force on worker organizing and empowerment and told it to report practical measures to him within 180 days.
And on April 27, the day after he created the task force, Biden put the government’s money where his mouth is, so to speak: He issued an executive order declaring that employees of federal contractors must be paid at least $15 an hour, by next March if they’re regular workers and by the end of 2024 if they’re tipped workers, such as servers in fast food restaurants on military bases.