Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016/Labor and employment

Jill Stein announced her presidential run on June 22, 2015.

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Read what Jill Stein and the 2016 Green Platform said about labor and employment.

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Stein supported canceling student loan debt

She called for creating living wage jobs that would have transitioned the U.S. to a green economy and restored infrastructure

She supported jobs as a right

Stein on labor and employment

• In a February 8, 2016, interview with Robert Scheer, Stein said that her campaign is the only one that supports canceling student debt. According to Stein, this would address the needs of the 43 million young people and not-so-young people locked in student debt because the jobs available are "not sufficient to keep a roof over their head, let alone also pay back their debt."

• During a February 5, 2016, interview, Jill Stein said, "We call for emergency creation of 20 million living wage jobs that transition us to a green economy -- a green energy, food and transportation system -- and restoring critical infrastructure, including ecosystems."

• According to Stein's 2016 campaign website, she supported jobs as a right. If elected, Stein planned to create living-wage jobs for every American who needed work, replacing unemployment offices with employment offices. She also planned to advance workers' rights to unionize and to keep a fair share of the wealth they helped create.

• In a November 11, 2015, interview with Yes! Weekly, Jill Stein proposed a jobs program meant to create "a more just economy." She said, "These are jobs, which like the New Deal, they would revive the economy. In this case, it is a Green New Deal so these jobs would focus on creating 100-percent clean renewable energy by 2030, creating healthy local, sustainable food systems and creating public transportation at the same time that we meet human needs. It’s a massive jobs creation program, but it’s far more efficient than the jobs program that Obama created in 2009, which was extremely expensive because it wasn’t direct job creation. It had a lot of tax incentives built in and those can get used in a whole variety of ways. Maybe it created 1 or 2 million jobs and cost $800 billion dollars. A Green New Deal would cost less than that and create far more jobs because it creates jobs directly, provides direct incentives for those jobs that are created."

• Stein said in a November 11, 2015, interview with Yes! Weekly that her New Green deal "contains living wage jobs so it contains the work that has to be done to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. That would happen with 20 million jobs. When that happens, it would pose so much pressure to jobs that aren’t paying these wages, that it would really force them to do the same.
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The 2016 Green Party Platform on labor and employment

“ The right to organize unions, bargain freely and strike when necessary is being destroyed by employers and their representatives in government. Today, nearly one out of ten workers involved in union organizing drives is illegally fired by employers who wage a campaign of fear, threats, and slick propaganda to keep workers from exercising a genuinely free choice. And as union membership falls, so do the wages of all working people, union and non-union alike. We support efforts to overcome these legal handicaps, especially in the South and Southwest where the laws are most hostile. We also must dedicate ourselves to fighting for a complete overhaul of this country's labor laws. The Green Party supports the irreducible right of working people, without hindrance, to form a union and to bargain collectively with their employer. This right was guaranteed under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. We support the right of workers, without penalty, to inform other workers on the premises of a union being formed. This includes advertising and recruiting. It is imperative that employees enjoy workplace democracy, which includes the following: The right to elect representatives to sit equally with management on the Board of Directors. The right to fair and democratic elections of their own union officers. No permanent replacement of striking workers. No forced overtime. Flexible working schedules so employees can arrange their own time to deal with personal and family concerns. All workers, temporary or permanent, must be paid a living wage. The federal minimum wage for all workers should be set to at least $15 per hour, indexed to inflation. All workers must have health care coverage, at least half paid by employer, until the passage of universal health care. All workers must have unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, and access to a jobs search program when they are unemployed. This security applies to farm workers as well. Minimum pensions for all workers, fully vested and portable, that do not reduce social security benefits. Mediation as the first available solution to labor–management disputes, with an agreed-upon time limit. New union members' right to submit a first contract to binding arbitration at the request of the union. Labor's first right to buy out a company that is for sale or is going bankrupt, or being outsourced to another state or another country. Requiring employers who purchase or merge with other companies to honor all existing collective bargaining agreements and contracts. Labor's right to stock ownership and oversight of the investment of its own funds in the company where it works. We support the enactment of living wage laws that apply to all workers. A major consequence of this law will be the lessening of the ever-widening gap between CEOs' income and workers' pay. Agricultural and other excluded workers must be covered by federal labor laws, except where existing state laws offer more protection. We encourage cooperative ownership and management of enterprises. We support day-care service offered at every workplace when feasible, or reasonably near-by when not feasible at the workplace. Management's ability to close its workplace and move to a lower-pay locale must be circumscribed to the degree that it protects the local workforce and their job security. We support the establishment of a reduced-hour work week and at least one month of vacation per year for all workers. The ever-widening gap between rich and poor is destructive of democracy and creates an uneven playing field for economic opportunity. Public welfare that depends on hand-outs from the corporate rich reduces democracy by that same amount. Every citizen must have the leverage necessary to become a productive member of the economy and the society in which we live. All workers have a right to a safe and humane working environment. A lack of adequate enforcement of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws and/or insufficient standards put many workers at risk. We support the following safety policies: Protect and enforce OSHA laws. We insist on adequate testing of equipment and funding of enforcement procedures. Inform workers of workplace hazards. Employers have a responsibility to protect workers from those hazards. Legislate full funding for worker safety programs at both the state and federal levels. Insist on agricultural practices that don't endanger farm workers. Put agricultural practices under the jurisdiction of OSHA. We stand firmly opposed to privatization and contracting-out of public services. A government that works for us would provide critical goods and services that should not be run for profit. ” —2016 Green Party Platform

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