Pay People an Adequate Wage and Everyone Benefits
Promote a Thriving Wage and the Ability To Negotiate for It
What does it mean?
Real-world evidence says: pay working people an adequate wage, and everyone benefits; give the rich a tax cut, they sock their savings away in a tax haven, and no one else benefits. Real world evidence also confirms that jobs are created by demand--if a business isn't selling its products, it won't be hiring more people to produce more of those products. We now know that when workers are paid a fair wage, putting disposable income in the hands of people who haven't previously had any, the increased demand boosts both job creation and the economy.
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Why Does It Matter?
When workers cannot organize, management holds all the power. An uneven distribution of power allows for unfair treatment and exploitation of workers. When management holds all the cards, workers are not fairly compensated, the economy suffers and social discord increases. The dramatic loss of union membership over the past several decades has been a substantial contributor to the current, enormous gap between the rich and the rest, and to the resentments that feed America's culture wars. The recent signs of union resurgence are good news!
Marc Carmichael joins the 67% of Americans who, according to Gallup Poll research, support organized labor in the US.
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