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Positions and Views on Other Issues where Information is Available: |
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| Wages & Unions |
Positions and Views |
| Wages, a General Statement |
Biden: No Response |
| Minimum Wage |
Biden: The minimum wage has been stagnant for too long in this country, no one should work a full time job and be too poor to meet their basic needs. Joe Biden supported raising the minimum wage to $7.25 from $5.15 —where it had been stuck for 10 years. As president, Joe Biden will continue to fight hard for better pay for all working Americans, beginning with the minimum wage.
Source: www.joebiden.com Date: 12/01/2007 |
| Wage Discrimination |
Biden: Joe Biden has fought to level the playing field for women at work through legislation punishing sexual harassment and working to end pay inequity. Today, women still face pay inequality, earning on average 77 cents for every dollar a man makes doing the same work. In an effort to address this discrimination, Joe Biden is a strong supporter of the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair Pay Restoration Act which works to prevent pay discrimination by strengthening penalties should it occur and fixing a Supreme Court decision that makes it more difficult for women to bring pay discrimination cases. Joe Biden also supported increasing the federal minimum wage from $5.15 where it had been stuck for 10 years to $7.25 an hour, giving more than 7 million women a pay raise in 2007.
Source: www.joebiden.com Date: 12/01/2007 |
| Time-and-a-Half for Overtime |
Biden: No Response |
| Davis Bacon Act |
Biden: Senator Biden joined the successful protest against the plan to waive prevailing wage requirements for workers hired to help rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/22/2008 |
| Political Activities of Public Union Members |
Biden: No Response |
| Wage Gap between Rich and Poor |
Biden: No Response |
| CEO Pay |
Biden: No Response |
| Wage Gap between Men and Women |
Biden: Today, with women still earning 77 cents for every dollar a man makes doing the same work, the Senator is a strong supporter of the Paycheck Fairness Act. It would help prevent pay discrimination by strengthening penalties should it occur.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/21/2008 |
| Labor, a General Statement |
Biden: Senator Biden is a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill to ensure workers can form, join, or assist labor unions without interference from employers.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/22/2008 |
| Organized Labor's Place in America |
Biden: No Response |
| Unions, a General Statement |
Biden: Senator Biden is a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill to ensure workers can form, join, or assist labor unions without interference from employers.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/21/2008 |
| Employee Free Choice Act |
Biden: Senator Biden is a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill to ensure workers can form, join, or assist labor unions without interference from employers.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/21/2008 |
| Permanent Replacement of Strikers |
Biden: No Response |
| Declining Percent of Unionized Workers |
Biden: No Response |