TY - RPRT T1 - Human Rights and Workers’ Rights in the United States Y1 - 2006 A1 - L. Compa KW - Employee Free Choice Act KW - employment KW - human rights KW - KW- legislation KW - KW - public policy KW - labor law KW - rights KW - standards KW - ULP KW - unfair labor practices KW - unions KW - workers AB -

[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.

PB - AFL-CIO CY - Washington, D.C. L2 - eng UR - http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/laborunions/47/ ER -