Issue Position: Strengthen and Grow Organized Labor

Issue Position

The Lenzi for Congress Campaign recognizes that organized labor is under attack. As a former member of the United Mine Workers I recognize the historic hostility of the Republican Party and big money to unions and their members. The current hostility of this administration through all levels of government has reached a fever pitch. Union membership has reached its lowest level since the Wagner Act of the 1930s. It is time to have a Congressional representative in the 12th District who stands strongly for working men and women and their families on the bread and butter issues. It is time we retire Mike Bost.
Our position on some of the key issues are clear:

1) Raise the Federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour. Though Illinois has, with our progressive Democratic Governor J. B. Pritzker, already raised the minimum wage, a Federal $ 15 minimum will lift wages of all workers throughout the country and buoy our economy. Long overdue!

2)We support 51 % Cardcheck (Employee free choice)! If a majority of workers sign union authorization cards they should have their union as a bargaining agent. The current process makes it too easy for employers to threaten workers and crush unions and hurt workers. Bost opposes Cardcheck. It's time to retire Mike Bost!

3)We support a BIG INFRASTRUCTURE BILL including a major buildout of renewable energy infrastructure. All of these projects should be union jobs paying Davis-Bacon wages. Bost voted for a huge tax cut for the rich rather than addressing the nation's infrastructure package that the nation needs.

4)Reform the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): The NLRB is currently in the pocket of big business and the oligarchs. Time to take back the NLRB for working families. The courts and the NLRB should not be allowed to steal from the pockets of hard working families.

The survival of organized labor is at stake in the next decade. We must stand together and expand the labor movement to represent all workers to move together for economic and social justice. Labor must be at the vanguard of this movement. Bost opposes all of these pro-labor positions. The times they are a'changin; Time to Retire Mike Bost!

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