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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/29/3442519/us-labor-rights-rankings/
Wisconsin’s crackdown on state worker rights in 2011 drew massive protests but was ultimately successful.
he United States ranks in the bottom half of the world when it comes to labor rights, according to a new global comparison from an international labor coalition that represents 176 million workers from 161 different nations.
The U.S. scores a four on the International Trade Union Confederation’s (ITUC) five-point scale, joining countries like Bahrain, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Thailand where the ITUC finds “systematic violations” of worker rights. Category one countries do the best job of protecting workers’ rights, and category five countries do the worst. (Countries where open violent conflict leaves workers completely adrift score a five or higher.) The categorization is based on a 97-point evaluation of the state of labor rights in various countries. The criteria range from fundamental civil liberties, like the ability to strike or to protest labor conditions without being murdered, to collective bargaining rights, the right to strike, and the free exercise of union rights.
The ITUC distinguished between “violations in law,” meaning legislative failures to protect workers, and “violations in practice,” meaning actual actions against workers. ITUC analysts sifted through reports of rights violations in a database that was created over 30 years ago and scored each country.
This is the state of labor rights around the world:
Wisconsin’s crackdown on state worker rights in 2011 drew massive protests but was ultimately successful.
he United States ranks in the bottom half of the world when it comes to labor rights, according to a new global comparison from an international labor coalition that represents 176 million workers from 161 different nations.
The U.S. scores a four on the International Trade Union Confederation’s (ITUC) five-point scale, joining countries like Bahrain, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Thailand where the ITUC finds “systematic violations” of worker rights. Category one countries do the best job of protecting workers’ rights, and category five countries do the worst. (Countries where open violent conflict leaves workers completely adrift score a five or higher.) The categorization is based on a 97-point evaluation of the state of labor rights in various countries. The criteria range from fundamental civil liberties, like the ability to strike or to protest labor conditions without being murdered, to collective bargaining rights, the right to strike, and the free exercise of union rights.
The ITUC distinguished between “violations in law,” meaning legislative failures to protect workers, and “violations in practice,” meaning actual actions against workers. ITUC analysts sifted through reports of rights violations in a database that was created over 30 years ago and scored each country.
This is the state of labor rights around the world:
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