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| Socialist Party USA: 2012-2013 National
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Labor
The
Socialist Party
stands for the right of all workers to organize,
for worker control of industry through the democratic organization of
the workplace, for the social ownership of the means of production and
distribution, and for international solidarity among working people
based on common opposition to global capitalism and imperialism. We
believe that the international organization of labor is the only way of
combating the exploitation of workers in a global capitalist economy.
Working people have no country, but rather an international bond based
on class. Workers throughout the world have far more in common with
each other across national boundaries than with their bosses in their
own countries. Ultimately a socialist revolution must be an
international revolution that cannot survive if confined to individual
countries amidst capitalist imperialism.
- We support the right
of any number of interested workers in a
workplace to form a union with no limits on the subjects upon which
employees and unions may bargain with employers.
- We support the right
of public sector workers to strike.
- We call for
recognizing a union based on cards signed.
- We call for the
democratic control of all unions by their
membership, and independent of employer domination and influence.
- We support the right
of all workers to engage in collective
action and self-representation regardless of union status.
- We support militant,
united labor action including hot cargo
agreements, and boycotts, factory committees, secondary and sympathy
strikes, sit-down strikes, general strikes, and ultimately the
expropriation of workplaces.
- We support the right
of workers to hold shop meetings on company
premises, elect their immediate supervisors, and administer health and
safety programs through the formation of shop councils.
- We call for the
repeal of the Hatch Act and the Taft-Hartley
Act, the "hot cargo" provision of the Landrum-Griffin Act, and all
so-called "right-to-work" laws.
- We call for the same
benefits for part-time workers as for
full-time workers.
- We call for increased
health and safety regulation of business, and
for increasing the size and enforcement power of the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
- We support the
creation of a fund for workers which would pay a
worker’s full wages and health insurance as well as necessary
educational and/or retraining costs if that worker loses a job due to
environmental transition, down-sizing, corporate dismantlement, or
capital flight.
- We call for a 30 hour
work week at no loss of pay, with six weeks
annual paid vacation.
- We call for unions to
stop using union funds for electing
candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties.
- We call for the end of
the decades-long
exclusion of farm workers and domestic workers from receiving overtime
pay
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