Empower Working Families

Economic inequality today is both the cause and the result of decades of policies that have attacked the poor and working class. Corporations have successfully organized and lobbied for anti-worker policies that decimated the organized labor. Rising costs of living and declining wages and benefits, exacerbated even further by the pandemic, have effectively excluded nearly everyone from the possibility of the “American Dream.” 

As Bernie Sanders said, “if there is going to be class warfare in this country, it’s about time the working class won that war.” In order to build the power needed to take on the economic, public health, police, and climate crises, we need a vibrant labor movement that can bargain for the common good.

Mckayla supports:

• Increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, indexed to inflation. 

• Pass the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to reverse the historic anti-labor laws that have decimated the US labor movement.

• Require enterprises with $100 million in annual revenue, $100 million in their balance sheet total, and publicly traded corporations to put 20 percent of their stock into an employee-owned trust fund and have 50 percent of the company’s board directly elected by the workers. 

• Establish a federal jobs guarantee that gives every resident the legal right to dignified work, in line with a national economic strategy toward decarbonization and reparations. 

• Give preferential policy treatment — though tax rates, grants, and procurements — to firms that abide by democratic ownership principles, such as worker cooperatives.

• Banning at-will employment.