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- * Sign into law the Family and Medical Leave
- Act, which George Bush vetoed in 1990, to
- allow workers to take a leave of absence from
- work when a child is born or when a family
- member is ill.
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- "Bill Clinton is committed to the rights of working men and women
- to organize and bargain collectively, and supports the repeal of
- Section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act to create a level playing
- field between labor and management.
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- * Stop giving tax breaks to American companies
- that shut down their plants here and ship
- American jobs overseas.
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- Topic 265 Clinton/Gore on Labor
- mstein Labor News & Notes 5:29 pm Aug 27, 1992
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- From: Michael Stein <mstein>
- Subject: Clinton/Gore on Labor
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- Subject: CLINTON POSITION TEXT: LABOR
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- CLINTON/GORE ON LABOR
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- If America is to regain its competitiveness, we
- must revitalize the American workplace to increase
- productivity and expand opportunity. A
- Clinton/Gore Administration will not accept four
- more years in which Americans work harder for less
- money and pay more for health care, housing and
- education.
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- Using the power of the White House, Bill Clinton
- and Al Gore will improve education and job
- training, provide affordable and accessible health
- care for all Americans, increase worker safety,
- open foreign markets and create an environment in
- which workers at the front lines make decisions
- instead of simply following orders. Bill Clinton
- and Al Gore have received the endorsement of the
- national AFL-CIO and many other unions for their
- detailed proposals and impressive records on
- standing up for Americas workers.
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- Sign the Workplace Fairness Act to ban permanent
- replacement of striking workers and preserve the
- collective bargaining process. Bill Clinton is
- committed to the rights of working men and women to
- organize and bargain collectively, and supports the
- repeal of Section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act to
- create a level playing field between labor and
- management.
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- * Guarantee every American affordable, quality
- health care: control costs, improve quality,
- and expand preventive and long-term care by
- taking on the medical insurance industry and
- the drug companies.
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- * Help workers gain more power in their
- companies day-to-day operations, the
- organization of their work places, and the
- type of compensation they receive.
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- * Improve the quality and efficiency of
- government by working closely with public
- employee unions and organizations like the
- State Local Government Labor Management
- Committee to advance a positive understanding
- of the role of government.
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- * Increase the minimum wage to keep pace with
- inflation and enforce the prevailing wage
- protections provided by the Davis Bacon Act.
-
- * Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to
- guarantee a working wage so that no American
- who works full-time is forced to live in
- poverty.
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- * Eliminate tax deductions for excessive
- executive pay.
-
- * Stop giving tax breaks to American companies
- that shut down their plants here and ship
- American jobs overseas.
-
- * Sign into law the Family and Medical Leave
- Act, which George Bush vetoed in 1990, to
- allow workers to take a leave of absence from
- work when a child is born or when a family
- member is ill.
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- * Provide lifetime training by requiring every
- employer to spend 1.5 percent of payroll for
- continuing education and training for all
- workers, not just executives -- or pay the
- equivalent into a National Training Fund.
-
- * Train non collegebound youth for high-wage,
- high quality jobs through a National
- Apprenticeship program that will pool the
- expertise of schools, local businesses and
- unions.
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- * Make adult literacy programs available by
- supporting clear and comprehensive state plans
- to teach everyone with a job to read and give
- every worker the chance to earn a General
- Equivalency Diploma.
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- * Support a Chemical Right-to-Know law to inform
- and protect workers and vigorously enforce
- worker safety regulations already on the
- books. Fully enforce Occupational Safety and
- Health Administration guidelines.
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- * Create hundreds of thousands of American jobs
- by opening up foreign markets and insisting
- that our trading partners tear down their
- trade barriers.
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- * Extend unemployment benefits to jobless
- workers in the event of a recession.
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- The Record
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- * Governor Clinton led Arkansas in creating
- manufacturing jobs at ten times the national
- rate. According to the Bureau of Labor
- Statistics, Arkansas ranked second in the
- nation in job creation for the year ended May
- 1992.
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- * Fought for high-quality, high-wage jobs.
- Arkansas ranked 6th in the nation in per
- capita income growth from 1990-1991.
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- * Instituted state-provided workplace safety
- training that resulted in significant
- reductions in worker accident rates.
-
- * Supported several state minimum wage increases
- and changed the Arkansas minimum wage law to
- cover more workers.
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- * Reduced overtime eligibility thresholds from
- 44 hours per week to 40.
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- * Funded Arkansas Workplace Literacy programs
- and basic skills classes.
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- * Signed into law a bill that mandated labor
- qualifications for the Director of the
- Arkansas Department of Labor.
-
- * Was the first Arkansas governor to recognize
- AFSCME as a bargaining unit at the Department
- of Labor.
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- * Received the endorsement of the Arkansas
- AFL-CIO in every gubernatorial campaign he
- entered.
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- * Senator Gore voted for the Workplace Fairness
- Act to ban permanent replacement of striking
- workers and preserve the collective bargaining
- process.
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- * Voted for unemployment compensation to provide
- an additional 13 weeks of extended benefits to
- unemployed workers in all states.
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- * Cosponsored the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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- * Opposed Davis-Bacon amendments to create a
- sub-class of laborers working at lower wages.
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- * Opposed campaign finance amendments requiring
- unions to report in burdensome detail all
- direct or indirect expenditures related to
- candidates for office or political causes.
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