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    • 20,000 to Hershey: Stop Sponsoring Child Labor by Halloween 

      International Labor Rights Forum (2011-01-01)
      This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed ...

    • €20.12 per Month Announced as Bangladesh Garment Workers’ Wage 

      Clean Clothes Campaign (2006-10-12)
      The Clean Clothes Campaign reports on the first proposed raise in the minimum wage for Bangladeshi garment workers since 1994.

    • 2000 Labour Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean 

      International Labour Office, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (2000-01-01)
      [Excerpt] To summarize, the region still cannot overcome the 1980s “foreign debt crisis”. The moderate and unstable recovery that took place in the 1990s was not enough to compensate for the deterioration experienced in ...

    • 2000 Report on Labor Practices in Burma 

      International Child Labor Program, U.S. (2000-02-01)

    • 2001 Labour Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean 

      International Labour Office, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (2001-12-01)
      [Excerpt] 2001 Labour Overview appears at a difficult time in the world economic situation, aggravated by the events of last 11 September. As short-term indicators have shown, these have had marked repercussions on the ...

    • 2002 Critique of Cocoa Protocol 

      International Labor Rights Forum (2001-11-30)
      The statement discusses the use of child and forced labor on cocoa farms in West Africa. It criticizes the industry-proposed Harkin-Engle Protocol for its failure to attack the problem and calls for a more integrated ...

    • 2002 Labour Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean 

      International Labour Office, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (2002-12-01)
      [Excerpt] For 2002, the region’s GDP growth rate is expected to fall by -0.8%, while ILO projections indicate that the region’s GDP should grow 3% in 2003, thus permitting the region’s urban unemployment to drop to 8.6%, ...

    • 2002 Statistics Fact Sheet 

      U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (2003-01-01)

    • 2003 ILRF Annual Report 

      International Labor Rights Forum (2003-11-30)
      Report provides an overview of the achievements made by the International Labor Rights Forum in their various labor campaigns around the world in 2003.

    • 2003 Labour Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean 

      International Labour Office, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (2003-12-01)
      [Excerpt] The modest results for 2003, with a slight economic upswing, confirm our concern for promoting farther-reaching development policies since the beginning of the 1990s. These policies have been characterized by ...

    • 2003 Statistics Fact Sheet 

      U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (2004-01-01)

    • 2004 Labour Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean 

      International Labour Office, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (2004-12-01)
      [Excerpt] In summary, and as discussed in the corresponding section of the 2004 Labour Overview, several countries experienced labour progress in 2004, while progress stagnated in others and declined in a few. It is therefore ...

    • 2004 Statistics Fact Sheet 

      U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (2005-01-01)

    • 2005 Annual Report 

      U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (2005-01-01)
      [Excerpt] In this first decade of the 21st century, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is positioned to play a key role in historic changes affecting our workplaces and our economy. With economic ...

    • 2005 Annual Report to Congress 

      Ombudsman of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, Part E (2006-01-01)
      [Excerpt] Part E of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act was passed by Congress to compensate American workers who put their health on the line to help fight the Cold War. Many of these workers ...

    • 2005 Cocoa Protocol Update 

      International Labor Rights Forum (2005-04-30)
      This brief report provides an update on child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa and on the status of the chocolate industry’s voluntary initiative to eliminate the worst forms of child labor by July 1, 2005.

    • 2005 ILRF Annual Report 

      International Labor Rights Forum (2005-11-30)
      Provides an overview of the achievements of the International Labor Rights Forum in their various labor campaigns around the world in 2005.

    • 2005 Labour Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean 

      International Labour Office, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (2005-10-01)
      [Excerpt] In summary, although regional economic growth has led to an improvement in some key labour market indicators, there remains a substantial decent work deficit which requires the continuous application of integrated ...

    • 2005 New York State Statistical Yearbook 

      The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York (2006-01-01)
      [Excerpt] This is the thirtieth edition of the New York State Statistical Yearbook, which the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government publishes annually in cooperation with the Office of the Governor and the New York ...

    • 2005 Report – International Secretariat Clean Clothes Campaign 

      Clean Clothes Campaign (2005-01-01)
      The report summarizes the activities of the Clean Clothes Campaign’s International Secretariat for the year of 2005, with a specific focus on the right to organize.