Minimum Wage
PUA Position Statement
Note: Currently, Position Statements have been
drafted by the PUA Staff as an initial starting point. However, in the future,
PUA Position Statements will be created with the direct input of the majority of
PUA Card Carrying Members (public voters) and it will reflect the majority
opinion. Therefore, your input as a PUA Member can change, often dramatically,
the PUA Position Statements in the near and distant future so if you do not see
your ideal opinion reflected here, remember, you can work to change it--the PUA
is ruled by majority vote.
Statement not formulated yet.
Briefly: The PUA believes in a livable wage
for adults who are not attending high school or college or receiving government
subsistence. The USA has become complex and each region now has its own
"cost-of-living" factor, which we believe should be factored into
livable wage rate. We do not believe that America needs to bastardize itself by
allowing illegal labor to be used in order to lower the cost to businesses, that
this stands against all the gains ever made in the labor movements of
yesteryear. As employers have shown a great willingness to abuse the employee
and strip them of their livable wages and other resources and rights, we believe
that Americans should all begin working toward the reintroduction of labor
unions in mass across the US until European levels are reached (about 65-80% of
all jobs) so that employers will more likely to support livable wages and
benefits for their personnel.
