Power At Work Power At Work Blogcast #49: BREAKING NEWS BLOGCAST: Understanding Treasury’s New Rules - Higher Wages, More Apprentices, and More Union Members
In this breaking news blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Aviva Aron-Dine, Acting Assistant Secretary on Tax Policy in the Treasury Department, and Alex Jacquez, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Development and Industrial Strategy, to discuss how the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service's new regulation implementing two labor provisions requiring prevailing wages and apprenticeship programs in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act will impact worker power.
Watch now for an expert breakdown of the new regulations, including the importance of requiring a prevailing wage, why expanding apprenticeship programs will help to build unions, and how these regulations will impact project labor agreements.
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Dr. Aviva Aron-Dine is the Acting Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the Treasury Department where she directs the Office of Tax Policy in developing, recommending, and implementing Federal tax policy on behalf of the Department. She is the former Deputy Director of the White House’s National Economic Council and Executive Associate Director in the Office of Management and Budget.
Alex Jacquez is Special Assistant to the President for Economic Development and Industrial Strategy and was a founding member of Team Labor in the National Economic Council. Before joining the White House staff, Alex was a Senior Policy Adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders.