NDP Socialist Resolutions

I'm not a member of the New Democratic Party, but I certainly identify with their socialist caucus. If the entire party was this way, it's likely I'd take out a membership in the party. However, there is an upcoming ONDP policy convention- January 26 to 28- and the NDP Socialist caucus has some great resolutions. I wonder how the social-democratic Trudeau liberals within the party will feel about them. My favorites include....

3. Work Week
Whereas the Canadian work week is among the longest in the industrialized world, a situation proven to cause increased stress, illness and lower productivity;
Whereas tens of thousands of new jobs would be created if the work week was reduced appropriately;
Therefore be it resolved that the NDP actively campaign to reduce the work week to 32 hours, without loss of pay or benefits to workers, and to outlaw mandatory overtime.

16. No Public Funding for Religious Schools

18. Repeal the Clarity Act

19. Right to Strike
Whereas governments increasingly seek to erode, restrict or eliminate workers’ right to strike, falsely arguing that unions and strikes pose a threat to public health and safety, while governments themselves trample human needs by de-regulating capital, privatizing public services, and facilitating growing corporate control over all facets of life;
Therefore Be It Resolved that the Ontario NDP actively campaign for, and seek to legislate the unfettered right to strike for all working people, and that the party respect the integrity and competence of unions to safeguard public health and safety and provide for the delivery of genuinely essential services during a strike by their members.

Others include resorting cuts to welfare, increased public ownership, the elimination of tuition fees for post-secondary education, and raising minimum wage to $10/hr. The full list can be found here