• The Green Party supports working people

WASHINGTON, DC — Green candidates and party leaders confirmed their commitment to a $25/hour national minimum wage, workers' rights, and union power and said that the economic status of working Americans and their families was unlikely to improve under either a Harris or Trump presidency.

"Since Reagan, whose neoliberal revolution went bipartisan under Clinton, every Democratic and Republican president has maintained economic policies that have increased financial insecurity for workers," said Alfred Molison, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States and a former member of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3184.

For immediate release
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

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Scott McLarty, Green Party Media Director, 202-878-2112, [email protected]

"The inflation of the 2020s has made this even worse, while corporate profits are soaring. We need to shift the balance of economic power from the owner and manager class to working people. The only political solution is a party whose candidates and elected officials support workplace democracy and reject corporate contributions and the influence of corporate lobbyists," said Molison.

The Green Party and its presidential nominee Jill Stein and running mate Butch Ware are calling for an economic overhaul that combines workers' rights, protections, and collective bargaining power with a $25/hour or higher livable minimum wage (currently an unlivable $7.25), universal health care (Expanded and Improved Medicare For All), student debt cancellation, new jobs in the transition to clean renewable energy, and promotion of worker-owned companies.

The Ecosocialist Green New Deal and the Green Party's labor platform list necessary measures to move from instability and debt to power and prosperity for working Americans.

"Support for Harris and Trump among different unions is inexplicable given the history of broken promises by Democrats and open hostility by Republicans, such as Trump's recent disparagement of overtime pay. We invite union leaders and members to get to know the Green Party, Jill Stein, Butch Ware, and other Green candidates, and our program for labor power," said David Doonan, former Mayor of the Village of Greenwich, New York, a member of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Local 560, and the Green Party's web manager.

See also:

GreenStream: Interviews with Green Women Candidates running in 2024

Acceptance speeches by nominees Jill Stein and Butch Ware, videos of state and local Green candidates, and more at the 2024 Green Convention

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