Anthony Aú✧Green Party🌻
Platform: North Carolina Green Party => V. ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMICS, TAX REFORM => Topic started by: AnthonyAú on Aug 20, 2024, 12:32 AM
A. A LIVING WAGE
- The North Carolina legislature should determine a minimum hourly living wage, based on a forty-hour work week, that all North Carolina employers must pay all employees, full- or part-time.
The level of this living wage should be reevaluated and adjusted, if necessary, every four years.
Municipalities should have the right under state law to set their own minimum hourly wage over and above that set by the state.
- The state should establish a fund to provide training and interim income to workers displaced by plant and office closings, bankruptcies, environmental reforms, technology shifts, and conversions from military to civilian production.
We favor tax and other incentives to encourage worker retraining by the community and its businesses.
- State laws should encourage the formation of consumer cooperatives, worker cooperatives, and community land trusts. Essential public services, particularly utilities and mass transportation, should be publicly owned.
- We strongly support workers' rights to organize. We further assert that this basic human right must apply internationally, and we affirm the need for international labor solidarity. We intend to use the international character of the Green movement as an instrument to further this value.