Federal Contract Workers and the Fight For a Living Wage
How your tax dollars are creating millions of underpaid jobs—and how workers are fighting back.
View ArticleFederal Contract Workers Are Demanding a Big Raise. But Will They Get It?
The Fight for $15 comes to Washington.
View ArticleTrump Eviscerates Federal Contracting Rules
The president just repealed an Obama executive order to prevent bad employers from getting federal contracts. Next up? The rest of Obama’s labor rules.
View ArticleLow-Wage Federal Contract Employees Get Stiffed, Again
For the second year in a row, janitors and security guards at federal buildings and other contract employees won’t get back pay from last winter’s 35-day shutdown, which continues to cause financial...
View ArticleUse the President’s Contracting Power to Improve Workers’ Lives
Biden needs to go well beyond repealing Trump’s bad executive orders—he has the power to assure that workers paid by federal contracts are a national model.
View ArticleHow Biden Can Raise Some Wages Even if Congress Won’t
There’s a lot he and his Labor Department can do, no matter what Congress may or may not enact.
View Article$15 an Hour for Federal Contractors Is Great. A Union Is Better.
Biden could kick-start labor organizing, without approval from Congress.
View ArticleBiden Administration ICE Contracts Encourage Forced Labor
A contract signed in April with the detention facility in Port Isabel, Texas, continues $1-a-day wages for those detained.
View ArticleHow Temp Agencies Keep Their Workers’ Wages Low
The Biden administration has targeted noncompete agreements. But other tactics depress worker wages.
View ArticleThe Eternal Recurrence of Defense Contractor Price-Gouging
For the second time in three years, TransDigm has been caught ripping off the Pentagon for millions of dollars. Will there finally be some accountability?
View ArticleBiden’s Executive Actions to Protect Workers
Today on TAP: The president could be doing a lot more with his executive power.
View ArticleIf Congress Can’t Boost Workers’ Rights, the Administration Will Go It Alone
A new report lays out ways that federal agencies can increase worker power.
View ArticleBernie Sanders Puts Amazon’s Billions in Federal Contracts at Risk
A hearing featuring Amazon Labor Union’s Christian Smalls looked at whether the government should continue to use companies as contractors after they engage in union-busting.
View ArticleBernie to Biden: You Can Give Rail Workers Sick Days
The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.
View ArticleUSDA Ignores Its Own Proposed Labor Standards
The department has yet to implement a rule requiring its contractors to obey labor laws.
View ArticleSenate Democrats Finally Control Committee Majorities. What Now?
Here are nine practical and urgent suggestions.
View ArticleLawsuit: Defense Contractor Fired Whistleblower for Reporting Accounting...
The allegations against spare-parts conglomerate TransDigm mirror previous claims against the ‘Martin Shkreli of defense contracting.’
View ArticleGunning for More VA Privatization
Veterans just dodged a GOP bullet to their health system, but now they face bipartisan fire once again.
View ArticleBiden Admin to Restore Labor Rule Gutted in 1980s
The Department of Labor plans to reverse the neoliberal-era gutting of a law that stopped contractors from bidding down wages in federal procurement.
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