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Cynthia McKinney shares a 56% similarity with your beliefs on Trade and Economics
I support unrestricted free trade
"Well, first of all, I would repeal NAFTA and CAFTA. Because we have this issue of immigration because we have unfair practices in our economic policy, military policy, and foreign policy to those parts of the world from which these people are coming."
"What we must encourage is a relationship with countries around the world, where we engage in fair trade, not free trade; we pay a fair price for the resources and other things that we need; we respect human rights, labor rights, environmental rights; and we repeal these agreements that have been implemented so far."
Voted NO on implementing CAFTA, Central America Free Trade
"[McKinney] supports fair trade, not corporate globalization. Has consistently opposed so-called "free trade" agreements – NAFTA, CAFTA, Fast Track, the Caribbean FTA, the US-Peru FTA, etc. – that undermine labor and environmental rights and cause the loss of living-wage jobs."
Chicago Tribune Issues Comparison
I strongly support an increase in the federal minimum wage
"Instead of a livable wage, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi put an increase in the minimum wage. If the minimum wage had kept up with the stratospheric height of CEO remuneration, the minimum wage would be 22 dollars an hour. It is not sufficient given the income inequality that exists in our country and the erosion of value of workers' wages."
IPS News interview by Matthew Cardinale Mar 22, 2008
Was the sole author/sponsor of the Corporate Code of Conduct Act (H.R. 5377) which required that U.S. companies operating overseas: "Ensure fair employment...and the right to organize independently and bargain collectively, and the payment of a living wage to all workers, including, at a minimum, a living wage that would meet the basic needs of an average-size family and provide some discretionary income for an average-size family."
I support legislation restricting employers from interfering with union votes
"I have accepted as the platform of the Power to the People Campaign, the 10-Point Draft Manifesto of the Reconstruction Movement...Among its many specific public policy planks, the Draft Manifesto calls for ensuring workers' rights by repealing Taft-Hartley to stop the unjust firing of union organizers, ban scabbing, and enable workers to exercise their voices at work."
"The rights of workers to organize and form unions is an important right essential to protecting adequate wages, worker safety and health, and job security. Through proposed legislation that would undercut job training and apprenticeship, remove rights to organize and collectively bargain, and restrict union speech activities, efforts continue to rescind and restrict traditional rights of workers. I oppose these and other efforts to rollback existing rights of workers."
Campaign website, www.cynthiaforcongress.com, "Issues" Dec 20, 2007
I strongly oppose government subsidies to farmers
Voted YES on the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (H.R. 2646), which authorized $167 billion over ten years for farm price supports, food aid and rural development. Payments would be made on a countercyclical program, meaning they would increase as prices dropped.