Green Party Platform:
Employment
Every person who wants to work is entitled to a job that pays a liveable wage.
Our country's economic system is too dependent on capitalist theories, which includes built-in unemployment to, partly, keep labor costs down.
The Green Party calls for a revised employment system:
- Support small businesses and cooperatives.
- Emphasize local job training programs, a shorter work week and job sharing.
- Legislate equal pay for equal work.
- Raise the minimum wage to a liveable level.
- Pass laws prohibiting hiring and firing decisions based on sexual orientation.
- Enforce the anti-trust laws.
- Redefine the GNP (Gross National Product) to include services which benefit society but are not presently remunerated; such as birthing, child rearing and homemaking. [see the Economic Measurement plank]
- Convert to a civilian economy while supporting defense workers during the conversion process. [see the Economic Conversion plank]