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"In my first week in office, I will notify Mexico and Canada that the US is withdrawing from NAFTA."

2007 AFL-CIO Democratic primary forum Aug 7, 2007

"NAFTA has spurred a $418 billion trade deficit, costing 525,000 jobs, most of them in manufacturing. The World Trade Organization forced our president to lift steel tariffs, which will cost us more good jobs and hurt consumers. The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas would encourage the privatization of municipal services, including water."

Associated Press policy Q&A, "Trade" Jan 25, 2004

Do you support imposing tariffs on products imported from nations that maintain restrictive trade barriers on American products? KUCINICH: Yes.

1996 Congressional National Political Awareness Test Jul 2, 1996

Against the United States' most favored nation status with China.

Debate at Pace University in Lower Manhattan Sep 25, 2003

"And I want to see America take a new direction in trade as part of this, and that means it's time to get out of NAFTA and the WTO--and have trade that's based on workers right: the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike, the right to decent wages and benefits and on and on. I'm here for workers standards."

2007 AFL-CIO Democratic primary forum Aug 7, 2007

"My first week in office, I will move to cancel NAFTA and our relationship with the WTO and go back to bilateral trade that will be conditioned on workers' rights, human rights, environmental quality principles."

2007 AFSCME Democratic primary debate in Cars

'We must make it a top priority to restore the value of the federal minimum wage, bringing it up to at least its 1968 level and indexing it to automatically keep pace with the cost of living.'

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"I favor restoring the value that has been lost to inflation over the past 35 years, which would mean a minimum wage of over $8.50. I favor indexing this to automatically keep pace with the cost of living."

Associated Press policy Q&A, "Minimum Wage" Jan 25, 2004

"It is unjust that here, in the richest country on earth, there is no guarantee that a full time job will lift a family out of a situation of dire poverty. That is because full-time year-round minimum wage earnings at $5.15 an hour leave a family of three $5,000 below the poverty line."

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"The right to organize is a basic right in a democratic society. And in a Worker's White House under a Kucinich administration, the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike, the right to decent wages and benefits, the right to a safe workplace, the right to a secure retirement, the right to participate in a political process--these are all basic rights that will be the hallmark of my presidency."

2007 AFL-CIO Democratic primary forum Aug 8, 2007

"As president I'll make sure that workers' rights are enshrined in a workers' White House. Because workers have a right to organize, a right to bargain collectively, a right to strike, a right to compensation if you're injured on the job. Certainly a right to fair wages and fair benefits. As president, I'll issue an executive order which will say that anyone who gets a federal contract will have to provide that when 50 percent of the workers sign up for a union, there's an automatic union."

AFSCME union debate in Iowa May 17, 2003

"One of the reasons why you've seen union membership dropping in this country is because you haven't seen that kind of common application of labor law. We have to make sure that all these institutions that have been set up to protect the rights of working men and women actually have teeth."

2007 AFSCME Democratic primary debate in Carson City Nevada Feb 21, 2007

"I think that we need to be in a position where we take a strong stand with a new American industrial policy where we're not losing any more jobs, where we guarantee workers' rights -- the right to strike, the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, the right to a decent wage and benefit, the right to a safe workplace."

AFSCME Leadership Forum, 6/19/07

Kucinich will shift USDA funding and focus away from the promotion of concentrated intensive and industrial agribusiness. New focus will benefit family farmers, rural communities, the environment, and consumers, with policies crafted to enable farmers to earn a fair price and to provide safe, nutritious food to all people.

Campaign website, www.Kucinich.us, "On The Issues"

Kucinich spoke out against granting China Most Favored Nation (MFN) status. Granting that status, says Kucinich, "has cost the U.S. the best leverage we have to influence China to enact worker rights, human rights, and religious rights and protections."

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