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Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016/Labor and employment
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- In a July 2015 interview with the New Hampshire Union-Leader, Jeb Bush said he would like for the economy to achieve 4 percent growth. Bush continued, "Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours” and, “through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That’s the only way we’re going to get out of this rut that we’re in.”[2]
- In March 2015, Bush opposed the federal minimum wage. He said, "We need to leave it to the private sector. I think state minimum wages are fine. The federal government shouldn't be doing this."[2]
- Bush has been critical of collective-bargaining and teachers unions. In March 2014, Bush said, “Teaching needs to be more of a profession and less of a collective-bargaining process." In November 2012, he said, “We need to have a teacher evaluation system that is based on teachers being professionals, not part of some collective trade union bargaining process. We have a system to reward teachers that’s based on an industrialized, unionized model that is completely inappropriate for the 21st century. There are incredibly fine teachers that get paid less even though they’re doing the Lord’s work consistently over time, and there are teachers that are mediocre that get paid more because they’ve been there longer.”[3][4]
- In a December 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Bush praised Governor Rick Snyder and Michigan legislators for passing a Right-to-Work law.[5]
- In 1999, Bush signed CS/SB 662, which created a "One-Stop Permitting Internet System to provide individuals and businesses with a central source of development permit information." It streamlined and expedited the permitting process for "new, expanding or relocating businesses in Florida."[6]
- According to The Washington Post, Bush "privatized the state government’s personnel department, its child protective services, its prison food services, its Medicaid program, and its defense of death-row inmates."[7]
- According to a document released by the AFL-CIO Bush "entered into approximately 140 contracts with private entities for services that had been provided by state workers. This drive to privatize was called 'The Florida Model.'"[8]
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- ↑ [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/us/politics/jeb-bush.html?_r=0 The New York Times, " Jeb Bush Bows Out of Campaign, Humbled and Outgunned," February 20, 2016]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Salon, "Jeb Bush just stepped in it: He’s either a stone-cold plutocrat — or just a terrible pol who sounds like one," July 9, 2015
- ↑ Las Vegas Review-Journal, "In Las Vegas, Jeb Bush stumps for better schools", March 27, 2014
- ↑ Washington Times, "Jeb Bush hammers teachers unions at education summit", November 27, 2012
- ↑ Washington Times, "BUSH: Right-to-work victory in Michigan", December 12, 2012
- ↑ Archives of the Florida State Senate, "SENATE STAFF ANALYSIS AND ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT for CS/SB 662", March 18, 1999; retrieved November 14, 2014
- ↑ Washington Post, "Morning Bits," accessed February 20, 2015
- ↑ AFSCME, "Shady Deals in the Sunshine State: The Florida Model of Privatization," accessed November 14, 2014
