A Radical Stance: Future of the Union

Values [1]

These are the goals that Future of the Union hopes to achieve, the dreams that they have for the UAW workers of today and tomorrow and for all working people in America.

• No cuts in public services: full funding for all community needs.
• A massive public spending increase in health, housing, education, childcare, leisure and community facilities paid for by taxes on the rich.
• Cancel the national debt with no payment to the big investors. Use the money to rebuild the inner cities and the infrastructure under union conditions and wages.
• Free, high quality public education for all, from preschool to college.
• Free, socialized medicine under democratic control.
• End pollution and environmental destruction with massive investment to clean up the environment.
• End discrimination and prejudice on the grounds of race, sex, ethnic background, sexuality and disability. Equal pay for equal work.
• Defend abortion rights; for the right of women to choose.
• Defend immigrant rights; papers for all.
• End police brutality and harassment through laborcommunity committees to control all aspects of public safety.
• Mass pickets and militant action to stop union busting, plant closures and layoffs.
• A minimum wage of $12.50/hour or $500 per week minimum guaranteed Income. The ultimate goal of abolishment of the entire wage system.
• No Workfare or prison labor, guaranteed training and a job for all.
• A 30 hour work week without loss of pay.
• Major investment in a cheap, accessible, integrated, safe, publiclyowned transportation system that meets the needs of people and the environment.
• Scrap antiunion laws. Trade unions to be democratically controlled by their members. Full time union officials should be elected and receive the wage of an average worker.
• Unions to break with the parties of the bosses and campaign to build a mass Workers’ Party.
• Solidarity with the struggles of workers in other countries; an injury to one is an injury to all.
• Take into public ownership, under democratic working class control and management, the top 500 corporations, banks, insurance and finance houses that dominate the economy. Compensation to be paid on the basis of proven need.
• An end to the rule of profit, for a socialist society to meet the needs of all.

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