Labor, Trade and Immigration

Steve Harrison supports increasing the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation or another comparable benchmark. However, even with indexing, very few Americans can support themselves and their families on the minimum wage.  This is why Steve will make creating jobs that pay a livable wage a top priority. 

Steve Harrison has a vision for America.  He believes we can get American's working again by reestablishing America's world economic leadership by investing in alternative energy sources and other 21st Century technology.

His plan requires that all energy related products be made in the USA, not just to create and protect American jobs, but as a matter of national security.  Steve supports putting Americans back to work in good paying jobs by investing in rebuilding infrastructure

Paying living wages for all jobs will decrease the need to hire illegal workers to perform unskilled labor. "I believe many Americans would be pleased to have a job picking tomatoes or washing dishes if it pays a living wage." Harrison adds, "A TV manufacturing plant can be relocated to Mexico or China to take advantage of low wages. A farm, that produces tomatoes, however, cannot be relocated. So the tomato 'manufacturer' resorts to illegally hiring undocumented Mexican workers to reap the benefits of low wages. And we as a nation look the other way. That's not right."

On the issue of immigration, Steve Harrison supports developing a path to citizenship for the estimated 15 million illegal workers already contributing to the economy. He is also calling for better border security. "On a practical level, we will never send back the fifteen million illegal workers who are already here, working and contributing to our economy," says Harrison. "The most humane, fiscally sound and all-around best solution is to assimilate them into the family of America through some path to citizenship and to get serious about border security now."

Steve Harrison is against outsourcing manufacturing and white-collar jobs to Mexico, China and India. He opposes free trade agreements that do not include stringent labor laws and policies. "If these provisions are lacking, we are not only manufacturing our products through the exploitation of foreign workers, but also at the expense of American jobs," says Harrison.

Steve Harrison is a strong supporter of the fundamental right of employees to organize and form a union.