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 Highlights of the Convention Message from National Organizer Tony Mazzocchi Convention Resolutions Sign up for Email Updates Join the Labor Party! |
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the Future: Labor Party Convention and Conference Resolutions and Constitutional Amendments Campaign to Bring the Bill of Rights into the Workplace Resolution Whereas, at our First Constitutional Convention the Labor Party resolved, that, "The Labor Party reject the status quo of today's workplace where workers are forced to abandon their Constitutional rights in order to earn a living, and are as a consequence, subject to the tyranny of the corporation." Whereas, at our First Constitutional Convention the Labor Party resolved to commit itself to, "Popularize the Campaign through Labor Party communications and with unions affiliated to the Labor Party." Whereas, a committee was sanctioned by the Interim National Council of the Labor Party to draft a document to help the Party understand the history of workers' struggles to make the Bill of Rights apply to workers and to put that struggle in the context of our present situation, where for all practical purposes we are denied the right to speak, assemble, organize, bargain and act in solidarity. Whereas, that committee drafted a document, Towards a New Labor Law, and circulated that document among Labor Party members, held meetings around the country to discuss the paper and as a result involved hundreds of trade unionists in the process of redrafting into its present form. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: 1. The Labor Party adopt the document Towards a New Labor Law to be used to promote a new direction for the way the labor movement perceives its history, conducts itself in the present and creates a future where working people get to exercise the Bill of Rights both on and off the job. 2. The Labor Party actively seek to re-frame the way labor defines its struggle from one where we are fighting to make bad laws, including the National Labor Relations Act/Taft-Hartley, the Railway Labor Act and other federal and state laws denying public and private sector employees' labor rights, work to our advantage to one where we insist on our Constitutional rights to speak, assemble, organize and act in solidarity by striking and boycotting. These are not rights we need to pass legislation to obtain, these are rights we have under the Constitution. The only way we will make them real is by re-framing the debate about labor's rights and defying the laws and injunctions that are put in our way by corporate-controlled legislatures and judges. |
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