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Mike Pence vice presidential campaign, 2016/Labor and employment

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Mike Pence
Republican vice presidential nominee
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The overview of the issue below was current as of the 2016 election.
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, voters named the economy and jobs as the "most important" problems facing America.[1] Job growth remained a top priority for Americans even as the unemployment rate in the U.S. returned to pre-recession levels. In October 2009, after nearly 9 million jobs were eliminated and following a 44 percent decrease in job openings during the Great Recession, the rate of unemployment reached 10 percent. Starting in October 2015 and throughout the 2016 presidential campaign season, unemployment hovered close to 5 percent.[2][3]

In 2016, the presidential candidates focused less on the unemployment rate, and more on "bringing back" jobs that have been outsourced, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Hillary Clinton called for investment in American infrastructure as a means of creating "good-paying" jobs and increasing wages.[4] Donald Trump's economic plan called for trade, tax, energy, and regulatory reform to make America the "best place in the world to get a job."[5]

See below what Mike Pence and the 2016 Republican Party Platform said about labor and employment.

Republican Party Pence on labor and employment

  • In 2011, Mike Pence voted for H.R.3094 - the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act, which proposed amending "the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to revise requirements for determination by the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) of an appropriate bargaining unit before an election of collective bargaining representation."[6]
  • Pence voted against H.R.800 - the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007, which proposed amending "the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board to certify a bargaining representative without directing an election if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative (card-check) and there is no other individual or labor organization currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit."[7]
  • Read what the 2016 presidential candidates and other vice presidential candidates said about labor and employment.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gallup, "Most Important Problem," accessed September 13, 2016
  2. ↑ Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey," accessed September 13, 2016
  3. ↑ Bureau of Labor Statistics, "The Recession of 2007–2009," February 2012
  4. ↑ Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign website, "Jobs and wages," accessed September 13, 2016
  5. ↑ Donald Trump 2016 campaign website, "ECONOMIC VISION: WINNING THE GLOBAL COMPETITION," accessed September 13, 2016
  6. ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.3094," accessed April 4, 2015
  7. ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.800," accessed April 4, 2015
  8. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  9. ↑ Republican Party, "The 2016 Republican Party Platform," accessed August 24, 2016
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