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Lincoln Chafee on Jobs
Former Republican Senator (RI, 1999-2007)
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Increase the minimum wage
Supports the following principles concerning labor:- Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today’s job market.
- Increase the federal minimum wage.
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Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.
Source: Vote-smart.org, 2000 NPAT
Jan 1, 2000
Voted YES on raising the minimum wage to $7.25 rather than $6.25.
Vote to increase the minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour, over a two-year time period, in three incremental stages. Without the amendment, the minimum wage would increase to $6.25 per hour.
Reference: Amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938;
Bill S AMDT 44 to S 256
; vote number 2005-26
on Mar 7, 2005
Voted YES on repealing Clinton's ergonomic rules on repetitive stress.
Vote to pass a resolution to give no enforcement authority to ergonomics rules submitted by the Labor Department during the Clinton Administration. These rules would force businesses to take steps to prevent work-related repetitive stress disorders
Reference:
Bill S J Res 6
; vote number 2001-15
on Mar 6, 2001
Rated 31% by the AFL-CIO, indicating an anti-union voting record.
Chafee scores 31% by the AFL-CIO on union issues
As the federation of America’s unions, the AFL-CIO includes more than 13 million of America’s workers in 60 member unions working in virtually every part of the economy. The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.
The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
Source: AFL-CIO website 03n-AFLCIO on Dec 31, 2003
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