Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Philadelphia Tuesday to highlight the administration's new rule to raise wage standards for some construction workers.
Vice President Kamala Harris makes remarks highlighting the Biden-Harris administration's investments in infrastructure, and announces a major initiative for workers, Aug. 8, 2023; at the Finishing Trades Institute Glazier Local Union 252 in Philadelphia, Pa.traveled to Philadelphia Tuesday to highlight the administration's new rule to raise wage standards for construction workers performing federally funded jobs as part of the broader "Bidenomics" push.
Speaking at the Finishing Trades Institute, a union training and education department, Harris highlighted the new rule that updates the prevailing wage regulations under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts , which determines the hourly wage for many union workers. This change will impact more than 1 million construction workers, most of whom do not have a college degree, senior administration officials said Monday.
"But here's the problem. Those standards have not been updated for 40 years. And as a result, many workers are paid much less than they deserve, much less than the value of their work. And not just by little, in some cases by thousands of dollars a year. And that is wrong, obviously, and completely unacceptable in the Biden-Harris administration," Harris said.
"This is the last thing our country needs as families continue to live with the painful effects of the Biden administration's inflation agenda," Cassidy said in his statement. During Harris' comments Tuesday, she noted the effort was part of the administration's overall "Bidenomics" push to help working class Americans, and was critical of the trickledown economic policies of the past.Many union workers attended the event, and the vice president praised them throughout her remarks.
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