All humans have both a need and a right to participate in their society in a meaningful way. A healthy society provides the means by which its citizens can become productive. These means include life-long education and training, meaningful jobs, placement services, and other services to help all citizens reach their full human potentials.

Sound ecological policies will ultimately lead to economic stability and job security for everyone. Meanwhile, as we make a transition from our current systems, we support all strategies that protect the livelihoods and retraining of all workers. We support the conversion of the economy and the reordering of priorities.

We affirm the wholeness of humanity and the fact that what affects one affects all the rest. While acknowledging cultural differences, we seek strategies to reconcile perceived differences and to find the common ground. We seek to bring together the working person's values of self- reliance, responsibility, family stability, and hard work with the aims of greater equality and a sustainable environment and economic system that provide meaningful work and a good quality of life for all.

We support:

• Policies and strategies that lead to a sustainable economy while replacing or protecting the livelihoods of all workers.
• Federal legislation that affirms the right of unionized labor to engage in lawful economic strikes without fear of losing their jobs to replacement workers.
• Funding for income support, education and retraining, incentives for entrepreneurial activities, and so forth that help displaced workers.
• A negative income tax plan to support those in need.
• Policies that help worker- and community-owned enterprises and efforts that prevent businesses from moving to other places because of lower wages or environmental standards.
• Legislation and regulations that keep workplaces safe and protect workers from environmental hazards.
• Parental leave legislation and universal child care.
• Equal pay for equal work.
• Policies that allow alternate work arrangements including flextime, job sharing, and computer hook-ups.