A new report lays out ways that federal agencies can increase worker power.
Lance Compa
Lance Compa is a senior lecturer emeritus at Cornell University’s ILR School and author of the Human Rights Watch report Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A Mexican Oligarch Is Undermining the New NAFTA
As the bill moves from the House to the Senate, a billionaire mine owner seeks to defeat an American miners’ strike by employing scabs—which the pending accord would outlaw.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Labor at a Crossroads: How Unions Can Thrive in the 21st Century
First, stop the self-flagellation: The labor movement lives, and is getting stronger.
Posted inSpecial Report
Slumming in America
Human-rights arguments are effective tools for shaming European companies into good labor practices in the U.S.
Posted inFeatures
Wary Allies
Corporate codes of conduct offer a “third way” to promote labor rights in the global economy–a civil-society alternative to first-way government regulation or second-way trade-union organizing and collective bargaining. Supporters argue that such codes can harness the market power of informed consumers to halt abuses against workers in developing countries, given that national laws vary […]
Posted inWorking in America
A Fast Track for Labor
Saying no to trade agreements won’t stop trade. Labor’s advocates need to support realistic proposals for modifying NAFTA and other pacts.