Workers’ rights and workers’ power stand at the center of our project for making America a just society.
- All workers should have the right to form or join a union of their own choosing free from intimidation by the employer or the government.
- We must end restrictions on workers’ rights to strike, to engage in sympathy strikes, to boycott and to refuse to handle struck goods. (Repeal Taft-Hartley and similar state laws.)
- Workers whether in private or public employment should have the right to participate in political activity without restrictions provided that they are not coerced. (Repeal the Hatch Act and similar state laws.)
- All workers whether in private or public employment should have the right to engage in concerted activities, including the right to strike, the right to bargain collectively and the right to enter into collective bargaining agreements. (Repeal all state and federal laws that inhibit workers’ rights.)
- Wherever workers have indicated by a simple majority that they want a union, they should have it without further ado. (Pass the Employee Free Choice Act.)
- Rewrite labor law and contracts to eliminate “the management rights clauses” as now established, because they are an obstacle to workers’ voices and votes on their life in the workplace.
