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:: Monday, December 13, 2004 ::
Human Rights Violations in the American Workplace Exposed Common Dreams
American Rights at Work, a new workers’ rights advocacy organization led by former Congressman David Bonior, announced that a worker in the United States is fired or discriminated against every 23 minutes for exercising his freedom of association on the job. “Workers are under attack and most Americans don’t even know it,” says Bonior. “Protecting workers’ rights to form unions is U.S. law, and a human rights standard that our country helped create.”
In observance of International Human Rights Day this December 10th, the group will unveil a ticker on its website www.americanrightsatwork.org that counts, in real time, the number of workers fired or discriminated against for union activity this year. International Human Rights Day commemorates the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Signed and ratified by the U.S. in 1948, the treaty states, “Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.”------------------------------------------- posted 10:02 AM :: reference link ::
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