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  Employee Free Choice Act

  Obama said that he supports the Employee Free Choice Act, but since taking office he has done nothing to get this bill out of committee and onto his desk to be signed into law. Despite the fact that Obama chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel has said that the EFCA is a back burner issue that is certainly not the case for the embattled labor unions who did so much to get Obama elected or the millions of unorganized workers who ...more »

  Obama said that he supports the Employee Free Choice Act, but since taking office he has done nothing to get this bill out of committee and onto his desk to be signed into law. Despite the fact that Obama chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel has said that the EFCA is a back burner issue that is certainly not the case for the embattled labor unions who did so much to get Obama elected or the millions of unorganized workers who yearn to belong to a union were the opportunity made available to them.

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  Labor Law Reform

  Of course Congress should pass the Employee Free Choice Act, but beyond that the Obama Administration should get behind its original campaign promise and pressure Congress to pass the Act. But that is only the beginning for real labor law reform. Next, all the provisions of the Taft Hartley Law still in force should be repealed. That would include legalizing common situs picketing and legalizing all of the ...more »

  Of course Congress should pass the Employee Free Choice Act, but beyond that the Obama Administration should get behind its original campaign promise and pressure Congress to pass the Act.

  But that is only the beginning for real labor law reform. Next, all the provisions of the Taft Hartley Law still in force should be repealed.

  That would include legalizing common situs picketing and legalizing all of the following types of strikes:

  wildcat strikes

  jurisdictional strikes

  solidarity strikes

  sympathy strikes and secondary boycotts

  political strikes

  Also, the so-called "right to work" provisions allowing some states to outlaw union shops should be repealed.

  The right of the federal government to enjoin strikes should be repealed.

  The right to unionize should be extended to supervisors, lower management personnel, agricultural workers, independent contractors such as cab drivers and all other workers not presently covered under the National Labor Relations Act.

  The minimum wage law should be changed to a living wage law, guaranteeing all workers the right to a livable income pegged to the cost of living.

  Free birth to grave medical care, including pharmaceuticals, eye care, psychiatric care, dental care and alternative treatments such as chiropractic should be made available to every resident of the United States. Everybody in, nobody out.

  Free public education should be available to every resident of the United States from infancy through graduate school.

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  Submitted by Robert Gabrielsky 3 years ago

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  Defund Party Primaries

  Tax dollars and federal and state governments should not pay for party primaries, which are, or at least ought to be, essentially private affairs wherein what ought to be a private organization (a political party) chooses its candidate(s). Likewise with political conventions.

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  Legalize Fusion voting

  Fusion is the right of a candidate for public office to appear on more than one ballot line or on more than one Party designation. The Fusion option is legal in very few states, notably New York. Where it exists the evidence suggests that it fosters diversity in the political process, particularly the growth and development of third parties and other independent political formations.

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  Submitted by Robert Gabrielsky 3 years ago

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  Abolish the Senate and the Presidency

  Abolish the Senate and the Presidency. Make the House of Representatives the sole federal legislative body and make congressional majorities responsible for administrative responsibilities now undertaken by the executive branch.

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  Free public Education infancy through graduate school

  Free public Education infancy through graduate school

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