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Quick Hits *** Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced a review of the DHS workforce to identify violent extremism among agency employees. "Violent extremism has no place at DHS and we will work with urgency and focus to address it," Mayorkas said in an April 26 message to agency employees. *** On Monday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order establishing a new Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, intended to boost union density and support collective bargaining. Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the group. Their assignment is to identify executive...

By executive order, federally contracted workers will be paid at least $15 an hour beginning Jan. 30, 2022. President Joe Biden signs an executive order on climate change in the State Dining Room of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (CN) — President Joe Biden is boosting federal contractors’ wages to $15 per hour starting next year, per an executive order he signed Tuesday. Not since 2014, under then-President Barack Obama, has the minimum wage for federal contractors seen an increase. The rate is currently $10.95 an hour. According to the Biden...

Today, President Biden will sign an Executive Order establishing the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. The Task Force will be dedicated to mobilizing the federal government’s policies, programs, and practices to empower workers to organize and successfully bargain with their employers. Chaired by Vice-President Kamala Harris and Vice-Chaired by Secretary Marty Walsh, the Task Force will include more than twenty cabinet members and heads of other federal agencies who will take a whole-of-government approach to empower workers. Background President Biden and Vice-Pr...

Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa about the creation of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, which will be dedicated to mobilizing the federal government's policies, programs and practices to assist workers to organize and successfully bargain with their employers. "The executive order signed by President Biden today shows this administration means business when it comes to growing union power in the U.S. The task force, headed by Vice President Ha...

WASHINGTON —  Vice President Kamala Harris will chair a new White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, the Biden administration announced Monday. The task force will be vice-chaired by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, will “be dedicated to mobilizing the federal government’s policies, programs, and practices to empower workers to organize and successfully bargain with their employers,” according to the White House. The task force is the latest addition to Harris’ growing portfolio, which includes leadership of the administration’s response to the increase of migran...