Minimum Wage Reform

The GNA Platform

Press the politicians
to support:

• A repeal of NAFTA and GATT, so that Fair Trade, environmental sustainability, and a living wage for all become the foundation of our trade policies.
• Federal legislation, such as the Employee Free Choice Act, guaranteeing that when the majority of workers in a sizeable workplace sign union cards, the employer would be required to enter into a collective bargaining process with the workers.
• An increase in the Federal Minimum Wage to $8.50 an hour, in line with the minimum wage in Canada and Europe.
• A substantial increase in taxes on large corporations and the richest one percent of Americans (with yearly incomes averaging $1.3 million) to pay for universal health care, subsidized childcare, and free tuition for public colleges and universities.

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Resources

• Jared Bernstein Testimony
  Testimony from an economist from the Economic Policy Institute arguing for the correlation between a livable minimum wage and a reduction in poverty.
• Fair Wages & Homelessness
  Policy Statements
  Put together by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, this document lists the justification for minimum wage increases and the specific economic policy changes that could bring them about.
• The Fight for the
  Minimum Wage
  This story follows this minimum-wage increasing laws passed in 2006, and the subsequent "gutting" of these laws that took place by lobbyists and legislators.

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