As might be expected, manufacturing employment grew 4.1 percent in right-to-work states over the past three years, compared with less than 3 percent in other states.
In March, IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, NUMSA, went on strike at AMSA demanding equal pay for work of equal value, and protesting against labour broking, deteriorating health and safety standards, and other labour rights violations.
The government must be held to account for its crimes, and now, more than ever, international solidarity is needed in support of workers and labour rights defenders in Iran.
The repression has widened steadily since then, with the arrest and'disappearance' of worker activists and labour rights supporters in Shenzen and across China.
The platform is used by more than 40,000 members in over 150 countries to manage performance around labour rights, health& safety, the environment and business ethics.
This means that risks related to health and safety, human rights, labour rights, corruption and the environment will be assessed alongside traditional supplier management risks.
All our economic problems, all the questions of securing the rights of labor, all the hopes of freedom at home and humanity abroad, rest upon the creation of international good-will.
This follows deeply worrying developments highlighted in various United Nations reports, in particular as regards human rights violations in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States and concerns around labour rights.
In the 19th century, May Day took on a new meaning, as an International Workers' Day grew out of the 19th-century movement for labor rights and an eight-hour work day in the United States.
Long working hours without breaks and sick leave, the struggle to save money, and the absence of proper safety standards and labour rights characterise the experience of Rose, Poe Poe, and that of thousands of other migrant workers, in Thailand.
Moeun Tola, executive director of labor rights group Central, said Cambodia's minimum wage debate needed to expand beyond simply looking at the wage rate and consider protections and benefits in order to make working in the country more attractive.
Findings from a February 2017 study of 12 factories by the Netherlands-based Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations(known as SOMO), reported that labour rights violations were rife among the facilities surveyed in and around Myanmar's largest city, Yangon.
Long working hours without breaks or sick leave, the struggle to save money, and the absence of proper safety standards and labor rights characterize the experience of Rose, Poe Poe, and thousands of other migrant workers in Thailand.
We got 700 people from around the country to come in, to sit in at pavilions, to say we want the passage of the civil rights bill, and minorities visibly working at the World's Fair,” says Velma Hill, longtime civil and labor rights activist.
The IUF-affiliated Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions(HKCTU) and Globalization Monitor have initiated an online petition to the Chinese government, calling for the immediate release of all detained activists and an end to the repression of labour rights organizations.
There are several specific human rights issues that you could raise during your visit to Vietnam, including limits on freedom of speech and assembly, restriction on the practice of religion and belief, the incarceration of political prisoners, and the violation of labor rights.
Support serious reform of the World Bank and IMF so that their membership and decision-making are democratic, and their operations subservient to sustainability principles and to all international conventions on human and labour rights, and environmental protection.
At the end of last year, the Drive Sustainability partnership, a group of the world's leading car companies, including BMW, Volkswagen and Ford, launched a new initiative to identify and address ethical, environmental, human, and labour rights issues associated with the sourcing of raw materials.
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