Lincoln Chafee on Jobs Former Republican Senator (RI, 1999-2007)

Increase the minimum wage

Supports the following principles concerning labor:
• Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today’s job market.
• Increase the federal minimum wage.
• Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.

Voted YES on raising the minimum wage to $7.25 rather than $6.25.

Voted YES on repealing Clinton's ergonomic rules on repetitive stress.

Rated 31% by the AFL-CIO, indicating an anti-union voting record.

As the federation of America’s unions, the AFL-CIO includes more than 13 million of America’s workers in 60 member unions working in virtually every part of the economy. The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.

The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.