It's called pandering to the people who put me here!
Posted on 01/16/2014 4:30:46 PM PST by Zakeet
President Obama is considering using his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors, he told Senate Democrats during a closed meeting at the White House.
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Obama and congressional Democrats are pushing for an across-the-board hike in the minimum hourly wage, from $7.25 to $10.10. But Republicans are cool to the plan, warning it could hurt the economy.
Federal contractors represent only a fraction of the nation’s employees. Businesses that together received more than $446 billion in federal contracts employ some 2 million workers, only some of whom are paid the minimum wage.
Still, an increase for that segment of the workforce could generate momentum toward a raise for all workers now paid the lowest amount allowable by law.
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It's called pandering to the people who put me here!
This is all show. So many Federal contracts have “prevailing wage” clauses (read: union wages) that a minimum wage boost is irrelevant for these companies.
....................FOLLOWING OBAMA
I’m going to give credit where it is due - at least Obama is TRYING to achieve his agenda. The GOP, on the other hand, merely whimpers and tries to appease the democrats. What would happen if Boner tried as hard to get a conservative agenda done as Obama and Reid do for THEIR side?
What few people know is that many union contracts are calculated as a percentage against the minimum wage. That is why they push the minimum wage issue so much. A slight increase in minimum wage equates to a large increase in union member salaries.
O’. you don’t have the authority to do that.
LOL!!!! I don't know a SINGLE fed contractor making a dime less than 25 an hour!!! What a phony.
The big-government/big-corporate criminal complex doesn't like competition.
They don't care if the pie gets smaller, they just want the whole pie.
As a matter of fact a smaller pie is better because it means the peasants will be starved out, leaving the ruling class to live in a Walden paradise.
The problem is who is going to stop Adolpho O’Hitler?
The Republicans....lol
SCOTUS..... rofl
nobody
Federal contractors are covered by Davis-Bacon aren’t they?
Those wages are far greater than minimum wage.
Exactly.
“But Republicans are cool to the plan, warning it could hurt the economy.”
Now there is a fire breathing response from Republicans.
“What few people know is that many union contracts are calculated as a percentage against the minimum wage. That is why they push the minimum wage issue so much. A slight increase in minimum wage equates to a large increase in union member salaries.”
So basically Obama is campaigning to raise costs borne by taxpayers on government contracts. Liberals are very generous with other people’s money.
All he will do is raise the price of everything if he approves it. I doubt he will because that group doesn’t send him donations and will piss of corporate donors everywhere.
Many public union pay is tied into the prevailing minimum wage. So if it goes up say three bucks an hour, for public union employees, their pay would go up too. It has nothing to do to help Burger workers, only his union buddies.
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