President Joe Biden on Friday plans to sign an executive order for federal grants that would prioritize projects with labor agreements, wage standards, and benefits such as access to child care and apprenticeship programs.
The Biden administration is trying to make the case that economic growth should flow out of better conditions for workers.
“A good job is a job with security and benefits, where workers have the right to join a union, advocate for better working conditions, come home safe and healthy, and retire with dignity,” said Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su.
Sexy
Agreed!
Now set it up as an evaluation criteria in the Federal Acquisition Regulations!
So they need to just have plans or they have to be wealthy already to get grants?
The order would establish a task force to coordinate policy development with the goal of ensuring more benefits for workers
This is as much info as i could find in the article. Looks like there’s no clear rules on how the money will be divided up, this will be done soon. My worry is here:
federal grants that would prioritize projects with labor agreements-
That “prioritizes” is a big, big modifier, allowing for the task force to allow at least some money from that grant to go to projects that don’t have labor agreements. Who is on that task force will be very important apparently.
Well there’s already a preexisting list. Presumably, projects today that might have been at the top of the list are now deprioritized in favor of projects that meet these criteria.
