Real wages are stagnant, and economic mobility is nonexistent. All wages are stagnant, and economic mobility is nonexistent.
Both parties tout the same talking points of the metrics of economic growth (stock market, GDP, unemployment rate) and not stats like economic mobility, the Human Development Index (HDI), Gross National Happiness (GNH),· and the Better Life Index. Those in power always advertise the stock market as a meter for financial wellbeing, as well as simply having a job. We, the working class, need to push back on the talking points from the duopoly. While they tout the lowest unemployment rate ever, many people are working multiple jobs, participating in the gig economy, and having precarious jobs (temp, contract) at the same time as paying skyrocketing rent bills, utilities, and food. The working class is living paycheck to paycheck (wage slavery), and neither party seems to be concerned. We must fight for the quality of jobs and the overall well-being of people. People over profit
- A right to work from home
- 30 days of paid vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Parental leave for both parents for two years
- Sectoral Bargaining
- Support worker-owned cooperatives.
- Right to disconnect from work
- Four-day work week with no loss in pay
- $25 minimum wage with tax credits for small businesses
- Creating consumer advocacy and public interest groups
- Force the recognition of a union in less than 6 months.
- End misclassified jobs and force companies to hire people directly.
- Free child care and fund child care to prevent the current extinction of these vital services.
- Force companies to bring jobs back to America.
- Review trade agreements for the benefit of workers, not corporations.
- End right to work
- Force billion-dollar corporations that manufacture clothing overseas to bring a certain percentage of unionized jobs back.
- End all pay discrepancies based on race, gender identity, or disability status.
- Nationalize all big sectors and utilities (oil, gas, airlines, telecommunications).
- 33% minimum worker representation on all boards of directors
- Protections for workers who try to unionize
- Establish federal public banking institutions.
- Establish a federal Universal Basic Income Commission.
- End tax loopholes.
- Tax Wall Street
- Sufficient disability payments, no cap on savings, or penalties for getting married
- Ban politicians from owning stock.
- End right to work and at-will laws
- Set a timeframe to transition to only doing business with democratized workplaces.
- Enact laws for a Set scheduled workweek and a guaranteed 40 hour work week to prevent evading giving benefits