Issue Position: Worker Rights

Issue Position

I believe all workers deserve the right to livable wages, and the right to organize and fight to raise standards in the workplace. As a former nursing home worker who was at one point one of two CNAs assigned to 65 dementia patients, I experienced the importance of a union to ensure workers can push back against CEOs that were profiting off of our poverty and our seniors' poverty.

Illinois has had some recent victories -- raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour was an achievement, but the work doesn't stop there. Therefore I will fight to make sure that the minimum wage continues to increase to keep up with the rising costs of living, including for tipped workers, fight to protect collective bargaining rights, and ensure that as we transition to a green economy, there is a just transition to green jobs for our trade workers.

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