Labor Rights Are Human Rights

Let’s Build an Economy That Works for Workers
We don’t have a worker shortage in this country. We have a dignity shortage. A protection shortage. A fairness shortage.

For too long, working people have been asked to carry more risk while getting less in return: unstable hours, unsafe conditions, stagnant pay, and shrinking rights. Meanwhile, corporate profits and CEO bonuses keep climbing.

We’re done asking politely. It’s time to shift power back to workers and build an economy that respects our labor, our time, and our lives.
Protect the Right to Organize
  • - Passing the PRO Act to strengthen union protections, ban captive audience meetings, and enforce labor law
  • - Making it easier to form unions with card check and first contract arbitration
  • - Expanding union rights to domestic workers, farm workers, gig workers, and contractors
  • - Ending retaliation against union organizers with real penalties for lawbreaking employers
  • - Fully funding the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to actually enforce the law
Raise the Floor and Level the Playing Field
  • - A $17 federal minimum wage, indexed to inflation
  • - Elimination of the subminimum wage for tipped workers, youth, and people with disabilities
  • - Strong prevailing wage laws and union requirements on federally funded projects
  • - A national 'Ban the Box' standard because no one should be permanently locked out of the job market
  • - Ending non-compete clauses and forced arbitration that trap workers in unfair conditions
  • - Abolishing the tipped wage system as structurally discriminatory no one’s basic income should depend on customer moods or bias
Support the New Workforce and the Old Values
  • - Portable benefits for gig, freelance, and contract workers including paid leave, unemployment, and retirement
  • - Universal predictable scheduling protections so workers can plan child care, school, or second jobs
  • - Fair pay, job protections, and safety standards for warehouse, platform, and AI-surveilled workers
  • - Protecting worker classification rights to prevent mislabeling and exploitation
Rebuild American Manufacturing with Union Jobs
  • - Require project labor agreements and community benefit agreements on green infrastructure
  • - Invest in domestic supply chains from EV batteries to solar panels to semiconductors
  • - Fund union-led apprenticeship and training programs for clean energy, construction, and transit jobs
  • - Use federal purchasing power to reward good employers not union busters
Respect Time, Pay, and Stability The Basics of a Good Job
  • - Fair wages, paid time off, and health benefits
  • - Protection against discrimination, harassment, and retaliation
  • - A schedule that lets you plan your life and care for your family
  • - A path to promotion, training, or ownership not just survival
  • - Ban employment drug testing for cannabis in states where it's legal, unless the employee is under the influence at work
  • - End the abuse of salaried workers by requiring that the salary threshold for overtime exemption be at least three times the federal minimum wage
Labor rights are about more than paychecks. They’re about power. And it’s time working people took that power back.
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