Progressive proposals: worker rights

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We seek leaders who will work to ensure a world in which prosperity is shared among the many and not merely the few. Shared prosperity requires a commitment to full employment as a priority for economic policy, tied to a commitment to decent work standards for all people. In the pursuit of economic justice, our priorities include:

Protecting the right to organize and to strike;
Developing and enforcing work safety standards and expanding workplace right-to-know laws;
Penalizing corporations that are repeat offenders of workers' rights, consumer and/or environmental laws;
Raising the minimum wage to a living wage that can sustain the family of a full-time worker;
Enforcing pay equity for men and women doing equivalent work;
Requiring workers' rights, human rights and environmental protections - and the mechanisms to enforce them - in all trade accords;
Protecting Social Security and expanding pensions;
Passing new initiatives to hold corporations accountable, shut down sweatshops and turn export-processing zones into fair workplaces, not back alleys of exploitation; and
Developing an America that leads in the struggle against poverty, while creating the example of a just democracy for all.

http://progressivemajority.org/values/economics.asp