The Green Party on Labor and Employment

[Youngstownshrimp]

Unbelievable!  We look around and see what our once industrious community has become, we witness the mass migration of promising youth who run from our obsolete mentality and yet we digress to what was proven wrong many years ago.  Workers rights were fought over many years ago and while we continue to squabble or babble, the hungry downtrodden worker of the third world takes our jobs to feed himself and slowly builds a better life for himself while we become him.

History shows us that during times of economic depression, Marxism and it's utopia views are widely dreamed for.  Man is created equal. but becomes unequal based on his drive.  What remains in our community are the have nots who are now clamoring for what the haves have achieved.  All of us at one time, immigrants were have nots, but the beauty of America, was that we were always able to become haves.  There is no more selfrespect to become haves the old way, we want it now, let's take our neighbor's stuff.

[Rick Rowlands]

What part of "mutually agreed upon" don't you understand?

[irishbobcat]

so workers can be slaves to management....no way, Rick......

Unions are needed for fair compensation and rules/regulations of work.....

Your take it or leave it philosophy went out with George Washington.....

[Rick Rowlands]

Employment should return to being a private transaction between employer and employee.  Compensation is a private matter mutually agreed upon by the involved parties only.  Government interference is not necessary. 

[irishbobcat]

The Green Party believes in free and fair elections, so I would yes....

[Dan Moadus]

Does the "Green Party" believe in the secret ballot when deciding whether or not a workforce accepts union representation?

[irishbobcat]

Labor is the activity of sustaining our future and ourselves. We recognize the individual responsibility of work and support freedom of association in the work place.

The Green Party of Ohio endorses legal right to organize and join unions with democratically elected leadership. In Ohio's Public sector, Greens are concerned with an employee's right to join a union, and with associated collective bargaining rights.

We encourage the use of mediation as a tool for resolving disputes in the workplace. If the state of Ohio strengthened this tool our productivity and desirability as a work site would be greatly enhanced.

The Green Party of Ohio recognizes that all Ohioans who work need to make a living wage. Corporations receiving public subsidies and contracting for public work must provide livable wage jobs, and observe basic workers rights.

Forcing welfare recipients to accept jobs that pay wages below a livable income ("a living wage") drives wages down and exploits workers for private profit at public expense. We reject "workfare" as a form of slave labor for the private or public enterprise.