Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 1992 22:27:06 CDT
From: <U56503@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton
Subject: ==> Clinton/Gore On Labor

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                     CLINTON/GORE ON LABOR




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.

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.

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.

*    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.

*    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.

*    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.

*    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.

*    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.

*    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.

*    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.

*    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.

*    Create hundreds of thousands of American jobs
     by opening up foreign markets and insisting
     that our trading partners tear down their
     trade barriers.

*    Extend unemployment benefits to jobless
     workers in the event of a recession.


The Record

*    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.

*    Fought for high-quality, high-wage jobs.
     Arkansas ranked 6th in the nation in per
     capita income growth from 1990-1991.

*    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.

*    Reduced overtime eligibility thresholds from
     44 hours per week to 40.

*    Funded Arkansas Workplace Literacy programs
     and basic skills classes.

*    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.

*    Received the endorsement of the Arkansas
     AFL-CIO in every gubernatorial campaign he
     entered.


*    Senator Gore voted for the Workplace Fairness
     Act to ban permanent replacement of striking
     workers and preserve the collective bargaining
     process.

*    Voted for unemployment compensation to provide
     an additional 13 weeks of extended benefits to
     unemployed workers in all states.

*    Cosponsored the Family and Medical Leave Act.

*    Opposed Davis-Bacon amendments to create a
     sub-class of laborers working at lower wages.

*    Opposed campaign finance amendments requiring
     unions to report in burdensome detail all
     direct or indirect expenditures related to
     candidates for office or political causes.