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<< Conservatives and "Judicial Activism" | Main | Low Cost of "Living Wage" Laws >> December 11, 2003Europe Condemns US Workers Rights ViolationsThe European Commission is discussing the human and worker rights disaster in US workplaces. The sad fact is that the US repeatedly fails to live up to international law on union rights embodied in the UN Charter and the International Labor Organization agreements that it's signed: “While Europe’s working people have the right to trade union membership and representation, workers in our major trading partner the USA, are often deprived of this right as more and more employers take advantage of the growing anti-union climate there”, said John Monks, General Secretary of the 60 million-member European Trade Union Confederation.For more on US violations of international law on workers rights, see this Human Rights Watch report. Posted by Nathan at December 11, 2003 11:09 AM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: Commentshttp://tinyurl.com/yuan At a rally by several hundred union members in front of the Labor Department in Washington, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said, "We want this administration to stop being the most antiworker, antilabor administration that we have seen." Then, Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, called President Bush "the most antiworker" president and said the Bush administration had "launched unprecedented assaults against working families" by trying to end overtime pay for eight million workers and by "trying to bust federal unions like never before." Responding to Mr. McEntee, Ed Frank, a Labor Department spokesman, said, "What else would you expect from the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s partisan political committee? The reality is that we have positive working relationships with numerous labor unions." One laborer to pencil pusher, Mr. Frank- name them besides the carpenters union. Not surprised the NYT guy didn't mentioned the union workers who lost many of their rights when Bush created (stole the thought from) Lieberman's Homeland Security Dept. How about those overtime rules Chao wants to get rid of, Mr. Frank? Numerous positive relationships? In your dreams. Posted by: jeff at December 11, 2003 05:44 PM Post a comment
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