BU Now » fair wage http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Gov’t contracts to better workers’ lot http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/02/26/govt-contracts-to-better-workers-lot/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/02/26/govt-contracts-to-better-workers-lot/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:09:53 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=4537 governmentThe Obama administration plans to use government buying power to prod private companies to improve benefits and wages for millions of workers.  School of Management economics Professor David Weil, an authority on labor-market policy, says there’s a long history of assuring that companies contracting with Uncle Sam adhere to workplace, environmental, and consumer protection laws.

“The Obama administration proposals are very much in line with that tradition — and appropriate, given the major role that the public sector is playing in this difficult economic time.”

Contact David Weil, 617-353-4615, daveweil@bu.edu

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