Issue Position: Worker Power

Issue Position

Madinah recognizes that working people produce the goods, services, and profits that create economic prosperity. But too many workers don't have a say in the workplaces that they keep running, both in Delaware and around the country. Companies are free to cut corners and even move overseas without input from workers.

It's time to give workers more power over the companies in which they work. Both American and Delaware history show that worker power ultimately results in higher pay, better working conditions, and a more productive, resilient economy.

Support and protect the formation of labor unions
Protect workers by strengthening labor unions and fighting the "right to work" laws that make it hard for workers to organize in their workplaces.
Make sure that government projects prioritize unionized, local workforces.
Create and sustain employee-owned companies
Assist with financing and support for companies to transition to employee-ownership, in the model of W. L. Gore and Associates, one of Delaware's greatest economic success stories.
Facilitate the creation of worker-run committees to resolve disputes and voice concerns to management, even in unorganized workplaces.
Reform Delaware's influential corporate law to create worker power throughout the country
Impose a fiduciary duty to workers on management, rather than just shareholders.
Require codetermination, giving workers the ability to elect members to the company's corporate board.
Require a supermajority on the board for those decisions which impact workers most heavily, especially decisions to move production out of the state or overseas.

Source