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Jon Corzine on Jobs
Democratic Jr Senator (NJ)
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Created 26,000 jobs in transportation, construction & energy
Governor Corzine is creating jobs--particularly in the fields of transportation, school construction, and energy--while simultaneously investing in the state's future infrastructure needs. He accelerated $2.8 billion in transportation projects,
generating an estimated 26,000 jobs directly (and 45,000 jobs indirectly), as well as fostering urban economic development via new initiatives like the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit and the Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit.
Source: Campaign website, www.joncorzine09.com, "Real Results"
, Jul 21, 2009
Increase minimum wage now; index it to inflation for later
The minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation. I support legislation increasing the minimum wage to $6.15 an hour. But quite frankly, I don’t believe $6.15 an hour is high enough. I support indexing the minimum wage to inflation,
because I believe it is terribly unfair for workers’ wages to be regularly held hostage to partisan politics. And I oppose efforts to exempt welfare recipients in welfare-to-work programs from federal minimum wage standards
Source: Web site www.votecorzine.org
, Sep 12, 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 NO 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
Protect overtime pay protections.
Corzine signed a letter from 43 Senators to the Secretary of Labor
To: Labor Secretary Elaine Chao
Dear Secretary Chao:
We write to express our serious concerns about the Department's proposed regulation on white collar exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act. These sweeping changes could eliminate overtime pay protections for millions of American workers.
We urge you not to implement this new regulation that will end overtime protections for those currently eligible. Under current law, the FLSA discourages employers from scheduling overtime by making overtime more expensive. According to a GAO study, employees exempt from overtime pay are twice as likely to work overtime as those covered by the protections. Our citizens are working longer hours than ever before – longer than in any other industrial nation.
At least one in five employees now has a work week that exceeds 50 hours. Protecting the 40-hour work week is vital to balancing work responsibilities and family needs. It is certainly not family friendly to require employees to work more hours for less pay.
Overtime protections clearly make an immense difference in preserving the 40-hour work week. Millions of employees depend on overtime pay to make ends meet and pay their bills for housing, food, and health care. Overtime pay often constitutes 20-25% of their wages. These workers will face an unfair reduction in their take-home pay if they can no longer receive their overtime pay.
We urge you not to go forward with any regulation that denies overtime pay protections to any of America's currently eligible hard-working men and women.
Source: Letter from 43 Senators to the Secretary of Labor 03-SEN4 on Jun 30, 2003
Rated 100% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record.
Corzine scores 100% 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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