Vision

CLCR ultimately aims to advance the High Road vision of development. In short, the High Road calls for:

• a vision of development in the context of the global economy;
  
  
• a fundamental change in economic policy to define leading roles for labor and community, premised on labor and citizen participation in all aspects of the economy, politics, and society;
  
  
• development that is environmentally sustainable, which means that companies make products and use processes and technology that are good for the health of workers, consumers, and surrounding communities; and that they restore rather than damage the environment;
  
  
• development that is economically sustainable, creating jobs and livelihoods that allow and encourage true human development. We want good jobs that can support a family and allow time for leisure, education, and social participation;
  
  
• development that is socially sustainable, with an objective of overcoming historic divisions and oppressions in society connected to race, gender, class, and national origin;
  
  
• a challenge to the limits of traditional redistributionist strategy for labor and community, recognizing that redistribution can best be achieved through popular control and leadership;
  
  
• a strategic alliance between the labor movement and the political, democratic, environmental, economic, new immigrant, and social organizations within the concept of "community;"
  
  
• recognition that labor and community must accept the responsibility to lead in creating wealth and developing productive capacity;
  
  
• being entrepreneurial--seeking to be leaders in the market place as well as in the social and political world and defining the essential connection between the two; and
  
  
• defining a clear role for government, including a responsibility to expand our civic structure and life and to measure success by progress at the company and community level.