1. Craft a free labor policy.
2. Less government, more unions.
3. End Right to Work laws.
4. Liberalize professional licensing.
5. Fix the free rider problem.
6. Free movement and integrated markets.
7. End unions' monopolies on negotiation.
8. Protect concerted activity.
9. Continue to require bargaining.
10.
Ensure the right to strike.
11.
Legalize illegal union activities.
12.
Make full boycott possible.
13.
Keep divestment legal.
14.
Unionize all walks of life.
15.
Establish free union elections.
16.
Free-market anti-capitalism.
17.
End slavery, domination, and dominion.
18.
Counter the rhetoric of self-ownership.
19.
Free association and non-discrimination.
20.
Promote acceptance and tolerance.
1.
CRAFT A FREE LABOR POLICY: Advance a labor policy which celebrates
the contributions that the organized labor movement has made to
advancing human liberty - and which is in keeping with the
Libertarian Party platform, strict-constructionist and originalist
interpretations of the Constitution, and frameworks to ensure free
and fair markets - by consistently supporting voluntary collective
bargaining activities over compulsion, hierarchy, and state
interference in the affairs of organized labor.
2.
LESS GOVERNMENT, MORE UNIONS: Retain the portion of the 1935 National
Labor Relations Act (N.L.R.A. / Wagner Act) which promotes the
practice and procedure of collective bargaining, but also promote the
radical privatization of government services wherever possible and
prudent, and demand that most or all necessary government activities
be performed by non-state actors. Increase overall union membership
in the United States.
3.
END RIGHT TO WORK LAWS: Support the freedom of unions to exercise
their right to become party to contracts with enterprises, by
opposing efforts to pass Right to Work laws and amendments, in all
jurisdictions and at all levels of government. Call on state
governors to nullify and repeal such laws, and state and federal
courts to rule them unconstitutional, due to their prohibition of
union-shop and closed-shop arrangements, union security agreements
which are perfectly free and voluntary (although they may have some
undesirable effects). Repeal the portion of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act
which prohibits closed-shop union security agreements.
4.
LIBERALIZE PROFESSIONAL LICENSING: Make Right to Work laws
unnecessary, by demanding an alternative method to preventing the
domination of professions within given states by the set of unionized
professionals already employed within them. Demand the liberalization
of professional licensing laws, in order to accommodate independent
contractors and those seeking to form unions.
5.
FIX THE FREE RIDER PROBLEM: Ensure that workers everywhere are free
to “not consent and refuse the benefits” of union negotiation.
Leave all employees free to refuse to pay dues to unions, but only on
the condition that the employee refuse all benefits of union
negotiation which he can feasibly refuse (i.e., not physical
workplace safety and health conditions). Consider liability waivers
as a possible solution to the safety and health free-rider problems.
6.
FREE MOVEMENT & INTEGRATED MARKETS: Fight globalism and
ultranationalism, while supporting globalization, integration and
interconnectedness of markets, and the free movement of labor and
capital (including the freedom of locomotion for travelers and
workers alike). Fight to liberalize immigration laws; end immigration
quotas; lower barriers to trade; decrease tariffs, duties, and
imposts; and oppose efforts of established unions to lobby for legal
measures that unfairly protect or favor domestic labor. Use education
to combat the stigmatization of legal and undocumented immigration.
7.
END UNIONS' MONOPOLIES ON NEGOTIATION: End compulsory unionism in the
private sector, and end the rights of unions to monopolize the representation of workers in negotiation with management. Repeal the section of the Wagner Act which
mandates that there is to be one exclusive bargaining representative
for a unit of employees. Spread awareness of, and normalize, the
practices of members-only collective bargaining, and dual and
minority unionism (the presence of two or more active unions in a
single workplace). Increase the diversity of the types of union
security agreements which are practiced in the United States.
8. PROTECT CONCERTED ACTIVITY: Retain the Wagner Act's
provisions that require the federal government to protect the right
of union and non-union employees to engage in concerted activity, and
retain the protection for discussing wages. Protect these rights, as
well as the right to form a union, in all jurisdictions, and at all
levels of government.
9. CONTINUE TO REQUIRE BARGAINING: Retain the Wagner Act's
requirement that employers must negotiate with employees, on the
grounds that a fair market is not possible unless the buyer and
seller of labor have equal say in determining the price at which the
labor is to be sold.
10.
ENSURE THE RIGHT TO STRIKE: Abolish the National Labor Relations
Board, and repeal the provision of the Taft-Hartley Act which
prohibits wildcat strikes. No union should have to request permission
from a government bureau in order to go on strike, nor should any
segment of a workplace or work force be denied the right to strike
without the approval of a union leader.
11.
LEGALIZE ILLEGAL UNION ACTIVITIES: Demand the legalization of
prohibited union activities wherever they could be engaged in
voluntarily. Repeal the portions of the Taft-Hartley Act which
prohibit secondary strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass
picketing, jurisdictional strikes, and monetary donations from unions
to federal political campaigns.
12.
MAKE FULL BOYCOTT POSSIBLE: Fight for the full right of workers and
taxpayers to engage in full
boycott of enterprises and unions with which they do not wish to
associate. Allow taxpayers to withhold their taxes from governments
that would spend it to enrich their favored business cronies and
favored unions. Call for tax strikes, which demand either the
abolition of the entire corporate welfare state, or that individual
citizens be free to decide which programs they will pay for and which
ones they will not.
13. KEEP DIVESTMENT LEGAL: In addition to supporting the full
rights to engage in strikes and boycotts, fight for the right to
engage in divestment campaigns. Encourage enterprises to end their
membership in lobbying agencies that disguise themselves as chambers
of commerce, and to instead join independent business alliances that
promote fair treatment for workers. Keep divestment legal, whether
against enterprises, unions, or even governments.
14.
UNIONIZE ALL WALKS OF LIFE: Fight for the rights of freelancers,
independent contractors, free agents, unemployed people, welfare
recipients, homeless people, ex-convicts, non-violent black market
laborers, tenants, open-source workers and peer-to-peer process
contributors, and people of all professions. to form unions.
Additionally, to demand negotiation with their employers, and to
resist state control, exploitation, hierarchy, and bossism.
15.
ESTABLISH FREE UNION ELECTIONS: Ensure that union members may vote in
union elections, and that non-dues-paying members and dues-paying
members alike are free to abstain from voting. Advocate for the
freedom of union members to hold elections featuring voter privity,
with results visible and subject to review by all members of the
union(s) and workplace(s) involved.
16.
FREE-MARKET ANTI-CAPITALISM: Reject the Libertarian Party's
endorsement of private property as a core principle, and oppose any
attempts to have the party list “capitalism” or “fiscal
conservatism” among its guiding economic principles, Promote the
idea that markets must be completely immune from price distortions
and undue limitations and inhibitions on markets (which are caused by
the state and its cronies, their hoarding, and their participation in
the capitalist mode of production), in order to be both fair and
truly free. Combat untrue anti-socialist and anti-communist
propaganda, and ignorance about left-wing economics, through
education and peaceful civil discourse. Oppose misinterpretation of
the Non-Aggression Principle that excuses or ignores intimidation,
exploitation, and economic pressures that coerce people and make
their decisions limited and effectively involuntary. Oppose cutthroat
competition, monopolistic competition, and competition to lower
prices that neglects the right of workers to receive sufficient
compensation for their effort.
17.
END SLAVERY, DOMINATION, & DOMINION: Oppose the extension of
markets to the realms of “living capital”; i.e., human
labor and work, and other living things. Empower consumers to resist
the commodification of labor, man, and nature; calling for such
market activities to cease. Abolish the markets for exclusively held
landed property, the product of human labor, sex work under economic
pressure and exploitation, toxic chemicals and poisons that kill when
used properly, and perhaps the markets for human organs and
endangered animal species. Support the rights of human beings, living
or dead, to resist being owned, kept, domesticated, overworked,
denied the right to negotiate what amounts to the full product of
their labor, and required, pressured, or threatened into performing
labors and actions against their will.
18.
COUNTER THE RHETORIC OF SELF-OWNERSHIP: Oppose the characterization
of liberty as “self-ownership”, in order to resist the perception
of the human body and its efforts as things – tangible pieces of
property - which can or should be owned, which gives the impression
of tangibility, suggesting that the body can or should be owned.
19.
FREE ASSOCIATION & NON-DISCRIMINATION: Oppose discrimination and
segregation in the public sector, and oppose discriminatory behavior
in all ostensibly private firms which receive any forms of taxpayer
funded subsidies and/or services, and/or are directly involved in
interstate commerce. In the social sphere, and on residential
properties, support the full freedom of, to, and from association.
20.
PROMOTE ACCEPTANCE & TOLERANCE: Fight reactionaryism, religiously
motivated bigotry, anti-Semitism, Judeophobia, Islamophobia,
chauvinism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ageism,
ableism, lookism, Social Darwinism, cultural monism and
assimilationism, and predjuice against people of every race, color,
and creed. Use education to combat ignorance of sociology, human
needs, intersectionality theory, institutional privileges, commonly
agreed upon parental responsibilities, the stigmatization of mental
disorders (especially those that keep people from working), and the
stigmatization of homelessness, poverty, and welfare receipt,
especially in Libertarian circles.
Written on October 30th, 2017
