Obama and Biden’s Working Friday
EmailOn Friday, President Obama and Vice President Biden will appear at a morning event in the East Wing dedicated to the working and middle class.
President Obama will sign three executive orders and a presidential memorandum. The three orders will, in the view of unions:
* Require federal contractors (holding contracts above $100,000) to post a balanced notice of their employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act;
* Require federal service contractors providing services to federal buildings to offer a right of first refusal to the nonsupervisory, nonmanagerial employees of the predecessor contractor for positions for which they were qualified; and
* Prevent federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenditures intended to support or deter their employees’ exercise of their right to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
President Obama will also issue a presidential memorandum creating a Middle Class Task Force. Mr. Biden will speak about his White House Task Force on Working Families, which Obama tasked him to chair back in December (Biden originally announced this on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.)
the Veep will also announce the creation of a new website — StrongMiddleClass.gov — and make remarks about the goal of the task force.
The audience will be composed of approximately 100 business and labor leaders and some Cabinet secretaries.
– Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
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Cool, keep this up they’ll create enough jobs for all of us in the White House. I’d like to be on the Low Sugar Cookie Task Force.
Posted by: KR | January 30, 2009, 7:34 am 7:34 am
So still no story on Obama’s GITMO pander being shutdown by the judge.
Posted by: BertieW | January 30, 2009, 8:43 am 8:43 am
Bush thought the middle class began at 1 million dollars. I’d like to see a task force on sending all cons to Mississippi.
Posted by: gus | January 30, 2009, 9:00 am 9:00 am
Bumbling Joe Biden in charge of revitalizing the Working Class? Heaven help us all!
Posted by: I'm With Stupid | January 30, 2009, 9:34 am 9:34 am
Obama has been in power for nine days, but some people do not want to give him a chance.
When my company hires someone, that person is always given a chance. It would not be wise to start ragging on that new employee two days after they start the job. That person could have been the best worker ever.
Posted by: Reason | January 30, 2009, 9:43 am 9:43 am
BertieW:
You missed it yesterday. The story was on and reporters can not repeat it every each day!
Posted by: Rosie | January 30, 2009, 9:45 am 9:45 am
Wow!! a president that actual works it seems everyday .
President bush if we were lucky work 6 times a year thats how it seems; and when he wasn’t on VACATION, he luvs to VETO . Nothing got done! As tax payers why did we pay Bush and company for the past 8 years.
Mind you the reason congress had such a low ratings in the past 8 years.. Bush VETO everything, so the DEMS said why bother.he isn’t going to sign any BILL anyway. and i saw their point.
Posted by: alan | January 30, 2009, 9:46 am 9:46 am
alan: ” and when he wasn’t on VACATION, he luvs to VETO . ”
What are you talking about? Bush vetoed something like only a dozen bills over his entire 8 years. It was a pathetic record in the modern era – he let Congress spend every cent they could imagine plus some and only vetoed stuff like stem cell research and the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007.
Posted by: jhw539 | January 30, 2009, 9:56 am 9:56 am
alan:
Can you please try to forget the former Pres. Bush. What he did was explained well in his ratings. Its time to move on!
Posted by: Rosie | January 30, 2009, 9:58 am 9:58 am
“thats how it seems”
Probably because you weren’t paying attention until now. The human mind tends to make up things to fill in gaps in their knowledge, mostly to fit their personal views.
Posted by: KR | January 30, 2009, 10:01 am 10:01 am
that welfare and pork package he wants to pass totally misses the middle class. Middle class – no welfare, no medicaid, no business tax cuts, no nothing. Obama is for taking money from the rich and giving it to inner city welfare cases. That is pretty much it. Middle class? he could not care less.
Posted by: Robert NYC | January 30, 2009, 10:31 am 10:31 am
Alan,
Im glad to see your looking at the world with those lovely bi-patisan glasses KO is selling on his website.
Maybe at somepoint you can take them off long enough to read. The FACTS are that both parties are resobsible of rthis mess, and as far as holdong things up goes, Barney Frank is the champ there. He is the expert of blocking legislation. He kept the replublicans frm adding much needed regulation on Freddie/fannie since 2003.
Then he directly had money in the TARP bill vectored off to a minority owned bank in Mass that was a disaster. More evidence of Frank and failed attempts to be a social engineer.
Bush is gone, But Bumbling, Stumblin Barney is still there involved in writing these bills that are ‘supposed” to be helping to solve the mess he shares direct responsibilty for creating.
I think we have had more than enough of Mr Frank’s “help” ! He should be removed from his chairmanship.
Posted by: Mike_C | January 30, 2009, 10:56 am 10:56 am
What part of this is ok with you?”Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s home district includes San Francisco.
Star-Kist Tuna’s headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi’s home district.
Star -Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.
Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan work force.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy’s husband, owns $17 milliondollars of Star-Kist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25,
Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage.
This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition’s.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed,
Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars
for an ‘economic development credit in American Samoa’.”
Posted by: C.C. | January 30, 2009, 11:17 am 11:17 am
in 5 years there will be two jobs in Obama’s America – Politician and the guy who keeps your spot in line for the government cheese
Posted by: Robert NYC | January 30, 2009, 11:28 am 11:28 am
Are any politicians aware of the trucking industry? I am a 74 year old female truck driver and because of fuel prices have dropped down from the middle class income to a lower class income. If it weren’t for my Social Security each month I guess I would be a bag lady. What I would like to see government do is set a mandatory fuel surcharge that has to be paid to owner operators to bring our rates back up to what we were making in the 70′s. Right now is’s 13% and should be around 27%. The difference comes out of our pckets right off the top. We stretch out our lubes and maintenance, wear our tires down too smooth and many mechanical repairs never get attention until it brakes. How about that mandatory fuel sur charge please? Carol G
Posted by: Carol Gleason | January 30, 2009, 11:33 am 11:33 am
The middle class has not disappeared. It may look smaller because the bottom has gotten bigger with the influx of over 22 million illegals. But the biggest change has gone upward. We had great economy under the Republican Congress in Clinton years and then the Bush tax cuts got the economy going even better after the Clinton recession Bush inherited. This resulted in millions more millionaires and the upper class grew. These are the people who have the funds and ways and means to start new businesses, improve existing firms, etc. They also have the means to invest. So they create the jobs and make more money because they have the means. We just have a bigger middle class now!!
Posted by: john hyland | January 30, 2009, 11:33 am 11:33 am
put on the tarrifs and bring the jobs back home and let the good times roll
Posted by: dennis | January 30, 2009, 11:35 am 11:35 am
You can say what you want, the bottom line is that we have new leadership and what happened in the past is just that, “In the past”. It is time to move on as a people and to put aside our hateful ways of thinking. I have seen more work done on behalf of the people in the last 11 days than I have seen in the last 20 years. As a citizen of the US I am willing to do whatever it takes to assist this administration in being successful. I don’t make much money but I am wiling to give back a percentage of what I earn to support the cause.
Posted by: Regis Harris | January 30, 2009, 11:35 am 11:35 am
Hmmmm! This is not going to work.
Posted by: anonymous | January 30, 2009, 11:40 am 11:40 am
“put on the tarrifs and bring the jobs back home and let the good times roll ”
If by “good times” you mean “Great Depression”, rock on, dude!
Posted by: I'm With Stupid | January 30, 2009, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
Maybe, if we elected our leaders from the middle class and not all from the career politician pool of old families and those who attended private schools and Ivy league schools, there wouldn’t be a need for a “Middle Class Task Force” – another government agency.
Someone like Governor Sarah Palin, who worked her way through college, budgeted for her family and lived within a middle class income level, would understand the plight of the middle class without a freakin’ task force. Unbelievable…
Posted by: Common sense, not so common | January 30, 2009, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm
I used to be a big supporter of Palin until she started giving interviews and her command of the english language became apparent
Posted by: pefros | January 30, 2009, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
Hooray!
Finally, VPJB is taking charge of W T F on working families!
We will soon see our working families to be different.
ABC should really change its policy of forbidding the three letters “W T F” grouped together. If PBO can create it, why cannot ABC allow it to be used?
Posted by: two cats | January 30, 2009, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
To quote George Burns. All the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair.
Posted by: James Villa | January 30, 2009, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm
The only thing new about the leadership is a different uniform but still playing the same game.
Posted by: James Villa | January 30, 2009, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm
I am retired from the government and draw retirement which is not enough to live on. I am not on medicare and only have hospital insurance through Mail Handlers. I had an accident and my bills were over 11,000. I also Had some spot that look like cancer and had them removed. the doctor I went to was on the PPO list, but I had to end up paying the bill. My friend works for the post office and his insurance pays for his children ages 12 and14 to get massages and to go to the chiropractic
doctor for no reason,and its all paid for. So why dose a government retiree have such bad insurance.
respectfully
Posted by: JOHN SMITH | August 2, 2009, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm