U.S. Capitol workers, others to strike for higher pay, union
Source: Reuters
BY IAN SIMPSON
(Reuters) - Some U.S. Capitol workers on Thursday will join for the first time a strike by other federal contract workers to press President Barack Obama to boost pay and spur unionization, a spokesman for strike organizers said.
About two dozen food service workers will be among several hundred federal contract employees expected to strike at the white-domed Capitol, Smithsonian museums, the Pentagon and other sites, said Paco Fabian, a spokesman for the Good Jobs Nation campaign for better pay and benefits.
The strikers want Obama to order improved pay and benefits for federal contract workers, he said. Obama has approved $10.10 an hour for workers on new contracts starting in January and has ordered better compliance on contracts.
"We need more than the minimum, and what the president has done so far is the minimum," Fabian said.
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(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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