• Mike Huckabee expressed support for a Guest Worker
Program similar to that supported by Bush.

• He backs mandatory citizenship verification for
immigrant workers on the part of the employers and believes in
fining and penalizing employers of illegal employees.

• For manufacturers who build products domestically he
supports a broad new tax credit policy. This category includes
auto makers, appliance makers and seven software developers.

• He believed that excessive litigation, red tape and
regulations cause job losses and promised as President he would
part a lot of the red tape involved.

• He pointed out that a lot of workers are underpaid while
CEO salaries continue to rise therefore making the growth of a
strong labor force inevitable in the United States.

• According to him since 80% of all jobs in the country
come from small businesses, they need more investment, growth
opportunities and support from the government.

• He was for vetoing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act
that would also include sexual orientation into Federal Law. This
would protect business owners from doing things that would
violate their moral conscience.

• He described Wal-Mart as a case study in the genius of
the American market place. He commended the fact that it paid
higher wages to its labor force and was always impressed with its
exemplary corporate structure.

• He commented that Consumerism is addictive but
tranquility is immaterial.

• He recognized the fact that there is 33% more
unemployment among the black community, a lot due to racial
differences and stressed on increasing educational and employment
opportunities for them to destroy the inequality that prevails.
		

• President Obama is a strong supporter of worker's rights.
He believes they should be given the right to bargain
collectively and strike if the need arises. He would see to it
that striking workers are not completely expelled from work.

• Obama believes in the Employees Free Choice Act which is
a bipartisan effort to enable workers to organize. The essence of
the Act is to give the employees a choice whether to join a union
or not and not simply be pressured into joining.

• He opposed Bush's National labor Relations Board's
'Kentucky River' decisions to classify workers such as nurses,
construction workers as supervisors. They were not to receive
protection under Federal labor laws under this decision therefore
Obama cosponsored legislation against this.

• Obama intended to raise the minimum wages index it to
inflationary levels and thereby raise the Earned Income Tax
Credit.

• Obama supports the United Auto Workers and AFL-CIO and
the right of workers to bargain collectively and strike if
necessary.  While running for election he said that he would work
to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers.

• Obama believes that America's future lies in developing
new clean energy jobs which can be achieved by mandatory limits
on carbon pollution which will create a stable business
environment welcoming investments from entrepreneurs in a new
energy economy.

• Obama plans to invest in innovation and development by
giving increased access to capital and by cutting health care
costs and also by introducing a new Small Business Health Tax
Credit.

• He supports the setting up of a national infrastructure
bank to use public and private capital to fund projects. He
builds in creating jobs by rebuilding business infrastructure.

• Obama believes that workers should have the freedom to
choose whether to join a union without harassment or intimidation
from their employers. Obama cosponsored and is strong advocate
for the Employee Free Choice Act, a bipartisan effort to assure
that workers can exercise their right to organize.  He will
continue to fight for EFCA's passage and sign it into law.