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Resolutions
Adopted by
The Labor Party's
First Constitutional Convention
General
Resolutions &
Resolutions of Solidarity
Submitted to the Resolutions Committee and adopted by the Labor Party’s First Constitutional Convention
Labor Party Training
We encourage local Labor Party bodies to utilize available resources to develop press releases, utilize the media effectively and train our own speakers.
We encourage local Labor Party bodies to utilize local resources to provide candidates training and relevant research data and be able to contact the National Labor Party for resources.
OSHA
Be it resolved that the Labor Party and its affiliates oppose any effort to weaken OSHA and workers compensation laws.
Corporate advertising in public schools
The Labor Party supports adequate and equal federal funding for all public schools, so that no school district is forced to rely on corporate advertising and donations.
Supporting workers’ struggles
Workfare
The Labor Party will support educational efforts to build solidarity among unions, community groups, welfare rights organizations and people of color against the injustices of workfare.
Telecommunications
We urge the Interim National Council to explore ways to use the Labor Party website to help build the Labor Party.
Organize the South
Be it resolved that the Labor Party members and chapters shall, wherever possible, engage in legislative, public policy and other challenges to anti-collective bargaining laws at the state and federal levels of government.
Solidarity Work
The Labor Party endorses the principles and work of the Albuquerque Anti-Sweat Coalition, in their attempt to have the Albuquerque City Council pass a resolution that the city will not purchase any material from any vendor that handles materials made under sweatshop conditions.
Be it resolved that the Labor Party hereby publicly states that it supports the members of Local #36 IUEW Furniture of Grandville, NY, and will encourage the labor movement to continue providing support until victory is achieved.
Be it resolved that the Labor Party stands solidly with the locked out Detroit newspaper workers; and
Be it resolved that the Labor Party calls upon all its members to boycott all unorganized Knight Ridder and Gannett Publications including but not limited to USA Today.
Be it resolved that the Labor Party call upon all its members to participate in the season of conscience activities and support the Haitian workers right to unionize.
Be it resolved that the Labor Party supports the unpaid staff at WBAI in the fight for their right to remain in the bargaining unit, and to appeal to the Pacifica Foundation to stop busting the union at WBAI.
That the Labor Party Convention join with millions of working people around the world and in the U.S in opposing the blockade of Cuba; demanding that it be lifted immediately, and support legislation to end the blockade and to normalize relations with Cuba; the women and children of Cuba are hit the hardest by the blockade, which results in shortages in medicines, food, school supplies, soap, clothes, raw materials and other necessities.
Census 2000 Policy
Be it resolved that the Labor Party joins the U.S. Census Bureau in its goal of a complete and accurate count in Census 2000, particularly among those population groups that have been traditionally undercounted in past censuses;
Be it resolved, that the Labor Party will publicize its endorsement of Census 2000 through its own publication, urging its full membership and the public to cooperate;
Be it finally resolved, that the Labor Party will assist the Census Bureau with recruiting and promotion efforts and will encourage local affiliates to work with the local Census staff in their areas to obtain a full and accurate count for Census 2000.
An Injury To One Is An Injury To All
Be it resolved that the Labor Party opposes police brutality and therefore denounces the police torture of our Brother Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant worker from New York, who was arrested without charge and brutally tortured.
Be it further resolved that the Labor Party demands the prosecution of all police personnel directly or complicitly involved in covering up this act of torture; and calls for the termination of those found guilty.
Be it further resolved that the Labor Party calls on our members and all people of good will to register vigorous protest against this heinous act and all incidents of police brutality.
Be it finally resolved that the Labor Party calls for justice for all victims of police brutality.
Be it resolved that the Labor Party reaffirms its condemnation of all forms of terrorism and hate crimes, including the recent brutal murder of Matthew Shepard.
Be it resolved that the Labor Party 1998 Convention goes on record demanding justice for Mumia Abu Jamal, a world-renowned award winning journalist, courageous defender of the rights of the working class and oppressed people, who is a prisoner on death row in Pennsylvania.
Be it further resolved, that we demand a new trial, due to the mockery of his 1982 trial; that was characterized by reliance on contradictory evidence from the police, coercion, intimidation, bribery by the police of prosecution witnesses; police suppression of evidence, the illegal exclusion of African-American jurors and the blatant bias of Judge Albert Sabo;
Be it further resolved, that the Labor Party joins the hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life around the world, who have demanded justice for Mumia Abu Jamal;
Be it finally resolved, to promptly communicate this resolution to Governor Tom Ridge: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, 225 Main Capital Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120. Fax) 717-783-4429. Tel) 717-787-2500.
Plant Closings and Economic Alternatives
Be it resolved the Labor Party recognizes the importance of and supports struggles by workers and their communities to fight plant closings and job loss;
Be it further resolved the Labor Party is committed to help these workers and communities discuss economic alternatives to the destruction of jobs and industries, and to support actions deemed appropriate by those affected;
Be it finally resolved the Labor Party encourages an ongoing discussion of ways and means to establish democratic control of the U.S. economy; as a means of developing a policy framework that expresses the Labor Party’s alternative to the present market-driven economic priorities.
Education
WHEREAS the Labor Party’s platform on education recognizes growing inequities between education haves and have nots within the United States, and identifies as a primary source of these inequalities the disparate funding at every level of education, and
WHEREAS these inequalities are compounded by the growing influence of the corporate, for-profit sector in higher education, where downsizing, privatization, neglect of physical plants, erosion in staffing levels and employment benefits, and an increasing reliance on a temporary and part-time work force have become the norm, rather than the exception; and
WHEREAS the corporatization of education erodes the quality of education, limits the ability of the university community to serve the larger society, and interferes with the scholarly mission of the faculty; and
WHEREAS the corporatization of education denies access by raising costs, doing away with affirmative action policies and remediation programs, threatening tenure, stifling academic freedom, and imposing corporate-dominated curricula; and
WHEREAS the purpose of higher education is the pursuit of knowledge, the general cultural and spiritual development of the individual, training for employment, and educating citizens to participate in democratic governments; and
WHEREAS the contributions of higher education in science, medicine, technology, the arts, humanities, and social sciences can play a central role in helping people to understand and solve the many social, political, and environmental problems facing us; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED that the Labor Party supports the efforts of those individuals, organizations, and labor unions in institutions of higher education who are engaged in fighting the imposition of corporate management practices into education; and be in further
RESOLVED that the Labor Party opposes downsizing, privatization, erosion in staffing levels,and substitution of part time for full time employment in the academic community, and be it further
RESOLVED that the Labor Party opposes corporate domination of the research and teaching agendas in higher education; and be it further
RESOLVED that the Labor Party supports affirmative action and remediation programs in higher education, and be it further
RESOLVED that the Labor Party supports the principle and practice of academic freedom and tenure in colleges and universities across the country, and be it further
RESOLVED that the Labor Party supports free access to higher education for all workers to pursue lifelong learning, and be it further
RESOLVED that the Labor Party invites and urges those in the higher education community to join the Labor Party to build a new political force that will counter growing corporate power doing great damage in all sectors of society.
The following resolutions of solidarity were proposed on the convention floor and were adopted unanimously at the First Constitutional Convention.
Whereas the Farm Labor Organizing Committee is organizing pickle workers in the Mt Olive Pickle Company, and whereas 2000 workers have signed union authorization cards and need to negotiate a fair contract, and whereas FLOC’s organizing drive is supported by over 60 organizations, and whereas the company should recognize FLOC but has steadfastly refused to do so, and whereas the only recourse left to workers is to appeal to American workers’ sense of justice, therefore the Labor Party resolves to support FLOC in its campaign to organize pickle workers and pledges to boycott all Mt. Olive Pickle Company products.
Whereas workers at the Crown Central Petroleum Company have been locked out since 1996, and whereas the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union is engaged in a campaign to win justice for these workers, therefore the Labor Party is resolved to support the campaign for the workers at Crown.
Whereas the Nabisco Company is trying to close down its most profitable company in Pittsburgh and to move their work to a nonunion factory, the Labor Party supports the Bakery and Confectionary Workers Local 12 and the Operating Engineers and the community groups working with them in support of Nabisco workers.
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