Workers' Rights

Genghis, who is pretty far from being a liberal, has an excellent review a few down from this.  I`d suggest anyone who thinks workers have ``too many rights`` reads it before speaking further.

I marked this a *5* even though I'm aware of the fact that US workers have no rights to speak of these days.UPDATE:1) Ghengis said it better than anyone else so far.2) Wiseguy's 'confession' speaks volumes.

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Men working with their hands built this country. Now we are destroying their livelihoods.Does our leadership really think that we can maintain a country where everyone wears a nametag being a greeter for Walmart? We are destroying the way of life that was so laboriously built up over the last 125 years.Plant closings, down-sizing, off-shoring, are destroying our country. We must start thinking of the rights of workers and not always put the almighty bottom line first.Every worker is entitled to a JUST wage, and that means more than a living wage. That means that the worker must be able to live comfortably and to put something aside. I can't believe the rusted out cars that I see the laboring class driving. That was never true when I was a kid. In those days, you traded every other year for a NEW car. Mother remained home to look after the kids and father brought home the bacon.Now our society is so fouled up that both mother and father have to work to try to put the bacon on th... Read more

Workers rights are important. Unions played a great deal, eventually becoming a heavy and inflexible build-up on the workforce. The amount of union workers decreasing. City and government employees HAVE TO join to avoid consequencies. Union entreprizes are not so effective as non-union. As result, GM is going down in competition with US-built foreign manufacturer Toyota. Average pay at Toyota, KY (non-union) is higher than at GM (unionized). So, what is the advantage to be in Union? No matter, how you work, you are safe from lay-off. No need to work hard, sometimes, no need to work at all. Have you ever visited govenment agencies (INS, Social Services). Employees there do not much care of the visitors. Their positions are secure.

An increasingly ignored issue that has a meaningful impact on many lives. Issues pertaining to wages, labor unions, and discrimination are of monumental importance to the economic welfare of our nation and our workers. Ensuring that workers are, among other things, paid an adequate wage and provided avenues of recourse in instances of discrimination or wrongdoing on the part of the employer should be a top priority. Unfortunately, these issues have seemed to slip off the radar screen. I hope someone with political courage and solid principles will step up and take a stand on these incredibly important issues.

Suprise,suprise.The Corporate puppeteers pulling strings in Washington would like to go back to the good ole' days of unregulated industry.Back when they did not have to bother with such annoyances as Employee Rights,Safety,Decent Working Conditions and Hours,Fair Wages,Pollution Laws,Gender or Racial equality or God forbid firing queers! They can regulate themselves just like a fox can guard your hens.

There is no question that workers deserve a right to safety and earning an honest pay. However, there is quite a bit of validity to the belief that many employees, especially many miniorites,tend to blackmail and abuse their advantages. I honestly believe that our society must rid itself of the ridiculous notion that if you don't make workers rights the most important issue in the nation that your on the side of corporate America. But I have never, ever, met a man that was given a job by a homeless person so I don't get where exactly corporate America gets a bad wrap...

Few realize how these are being increasingly ignored. As of this writing (from a survey of workers) 47% of African Americans claim to have suffered job based racial discrimination and 23% of female workers claim to have suffered sexual harassment. 68% of American workers are in agreement that far greater steps are needed to protect workers rights. Furthermore many workers rights are not actually protected under the law such as: a workers right to privacy, the right not be fired without cause and a right to sick leave. I also consider wages to be part of workers rights, as I believe a person deserves fair pay for the work the work they do. Even though the economy has grown immensely since 1968, the minimum wage hasn't. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since 1968 then it would be $8.46 right now, as a result, millions of full-time workers still live in poverty. Another example of how obscenely workers are being exploited would be in comparing the average chief executives ... Read more