1. Employment as a right, fully on a par with other civil rights such
a the right to free speech.
I may be being excessively legalistic here, but if employment were a constitutional right, that would normally just mean that the government could not act to deprive you of it. What I presume you mean, though, is taht we need a legislative commitment to full emplyment that would either operate against private employers or would commit the government to act as employer of last resort or something like that.
> 2. Work as meaningful, with a maximum integration, in every job, of
our uniquely human capability to conceptualize and carry out
work tasks, and a sharing of society's more onerous tasks. A democratic
union will naturally turn its attention to the workplace, and the
hierarchies found there will be no more tolerable than those in the
union. Workplace hierarchies are based, in part, upon an inhuman
division of labor, which divides up our jobs and doles them out to us in
little mechanical pieces, unfit for truly human labor. From democratic
unions to democratic workplaces seems a natural progression.
This is pretty vague and mealy-mouthered when you are talking about what amounts to the end of capitalist control of the workplace. Is that vagueness and waffling deliberate?
> 4. Maximum democratic control of production, whether by workers
or communities or both. As democratic
control spreads from our unions to our workplaces, it will ultimately
know no bounds.
Difference from above?
> 7. No discrimination of any kind. An injury to one must be an injury
to all, no matter who the one is, that is, irrespective of any person's
race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. And we cannot
say, as many have, that we will attack discrimination after we take
power, because such a view really means that we will never do it. We
must make the fight for democracy in our unions a fight for equal rights
for all.
What about affirmative action?
> 8. Equality, and not just some sham equality of opportunity, seen as a
good in itself. When we think about it, it is very difficult to justify
any significant differences in reward among human beings. Why should
anyone make a great deal more money than another or have more wealth
than another? Inequality is the great underminer of democracy.
You start off saying that equality is good in itself and end up justifying it interms of democracy.
--jks