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Human Rights and Workers’ Rights in the United States

Author
Compa, Lance A.
Abstract
[Excerpt] Over the past 50 years, a comprehensive body of international law has affirmed human rights to which all workers are entitled, including the right to form unions and bargain collectively. Although the U.S. government has committed itself to protecting these rights, many American employers fail to live up to these international human rights standards for workers. American workers routinely confront a shameful pattern of threats, harassment, spying, firings and other reprisals against worker activists and a labor law system that is failing to deter such violations.
Date Issued
2006-01-01Subject
rights; workers; employment; standards; Employee Free Choice Act; human rights; unions; unfair labor practices; ULP; labor law; public policy; legislation
Rights
Required Publisher Statement: Copyright by the AFL-CIO. Document posted with special permission by the copyright holder.
Type
article