From the Peace and Freedom Party website:
At its March 9, 2015 State Central Committee meeting, the Peace and Freedom Party endorsed a petition campaign being organized by the British organization Global Women’s Strike. Here is the petition.
Petition to ALL governments: A living wage for mothers and other caregivers
Caring for others is the foundation of every society, yet this work, done mostly by women, is devalued and underfunded. San Diego Compassionate Caregivers provide excellent service for their clients as do many other companies and are not praised or being paid as they should!
We demand that:
1. Every worker be paid a living wage, including mothers and other caregiverss.
2. National and international budgets redirect financial support and resources to mothers and other caregivers.
We demand a living wage for mothers and other caregivers because:
•Every worker is entitled to a living wage. Women do 2/3 of the world’s work – in the home, on the land and in the community – but most of this work is unwaged.
•Women are the primary caregivers everywhere in the world, fighting for the survival and well-being of children and sick, disabled and elderly people, in the home and outside, in peace as in war. Women grow most of the world’s food.
•Most caregivers, starting with mothers, get no wages and aren’t considered workers.
•Many caregivers are themselves disabled; many are children caring for younger ones or for their disabled parents; many are grandparents leaving retirement to care for their children’s children.
•Caring is demanding work but the skills it requires are undervalued even in the job market – domestic work, homecare, childcare and even nursing are low paid.
•Valuing caring work would help to close the income gap between women and men. It would also draw more men into caring.
•Financial dependence when caring work is unwaged often traps women in violent relationships.
•Many mothers do several jobs and have to fit time with their children around their job – this is exhausting and stressful for all.
•When mothers are impoverished and overworked, children suffer: hunger, ill-health, violence and exploitation.
•Mothers who have to return to other work soon after childbirth are less likely to breastfeed.
•Workers who take time off to care for children or other loved ones, lose pay, promotion, social security and future pension.
•Devaluing caring work devalues people, relationships and life itself.
•Investing in caregivers redirects economic and social policies towards survival, health and well-being – for every individual and for the planet which sustains us all.
Source: Global Women’s Strike.
Fly off to another country, go out of business, switch personal and business accounts and business and corporate hqs as well as other operations to other countries, lay people off, etc. Pie ain’t fixed sized, folks, not nearly. Just ask the North and South Koreans…
Simply take everything from person A (say Mr. Buffet or Mr. Gates) and give it to person B( say Mrs. Duggar and the 19 children). Of course do this before they fly off to another country with the money. Gosh Darn that sounds like a fascist state. I think Peace and Freedom should rethink this policy.
Please explain how that economic equation works, where and how the money flows (now vs proposed system) and why it isn’t being done that way now.
The difficulty of the idea of mothers recieving wages from the state is the layers of bureaucracy needed to administer such a program.
But I think it could be easily shown that the money saved by the government and society when the elderly and ill are taken care of at home would easily fund $25 an hour for in home caregivers.
The central committee has a plan for all comrades. Not all comrades are allowed to know what the plans are for them, or any other comrade. We must trust in the wisdom of the central committee, especially if we want to demonstrate that we are adequately motivated and don’t need additional mandatory motivation time.
Sat “Hi” to Putin for me if you see him! He seems to have gone missing. I hope he didn’t get a “Trotsky headache”!
We were thinking handcuffed dingleberry harvesting in Siberia, but we’ll consider sugar plantation hand harvesting in the summer in Cuba, comrade. I will forward a mimeograph to the central committee for motivational assignments. Long live the revolution!
I would prefer sugar harvesting in Cuba, Comrade! That is motivating enough.
That’s the spirit, comrade! I didn’t think you would want to spend your summer in mandatory motivation camp.
Sorry, comrade… we will try harder!
You people are so cynical. No wonder we haven’t made any progress on the five year plan!
This is such a great idea! I wonder why nobody ever thought of this before?
Mrs. Duggar of Arkansas will do great with this scheme. I believe she has 19 children. Would it be $25 per hour or could they up it to $25×19 and add the 24 hours a day. Does this also include overtime passed the 8hr day and of course Sat&Sun, all the holidays ? Oh, and sick time, paid of course.
$25.00 per hour? Don’t mothers work 24 hours a day? Wow! The pro-life people should love this!