A FAIR RETURN FOR OUR WORK

Too many Pennsylvanians work long hours for wages that do not allow them to support themselves or their families. Like many local, community-based businesses, they are at the mercy of large corporations that abuse them.
Pennsylvanians Together calls for policies to protect and reward workers to ensure that everyone—with no exceptions—can secure a fair return on their work and give their kids a better life by
• removing the barriers that prevent Pennsylvanians from joining together to form unions to negotiate for better wages, benefits, and safety in the workplace and from creating worker–management councils in sectors of the economy that are not yet organized.
• ensuring that every worker has paid family leave and sick days.
• making it possible for undocumented workers to secure the driver’s licenses they need to get to work.
• creating a living minimum wage that increases with the cost of living, ending the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, ending the preemption of local minimum wage laws, and enforcing minimum wage laws.
• supporting local worker-based and community-based businesses that focus on the good of workers and their communities, not profits.
• fixing our unemployment system so it helps all who lose their jobs while helping the unemployed get the training they need to get better jobs at higher wages.