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National Labor Committee Guest Workers Are Trafficked to Israel and Cheated of Wages
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A highly respected independent labor rights organization in Israel, Kav LaOved , released a shocking report based on its investigation of foreign guest workers, trafficked to Israel and exploited on agricultural ...
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"H1N1 exposes weak leave policies"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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When Great Falls resident Carolyn Cuppernull's 10-year-old daughter came down with swine flu, she didn't have to take time off work to stay home with her.
National Labor Committee Wal-Mart's Swine Flu-Spreading Sick Leave Policy on Good Morning Amercia
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The National Labor Committee (NLC) published a report Tuesday bashing Walmart's sick leave policy, which they said "gives workers demerits and deducts pay for staying home when they are sick or to care for a sick child."
National Labor Committee Wal-Mart`s Sick Leave Policy Risks Spreading Swine Flu: To avoid swine flu this season, you must avoid Wal-Mart.
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Punishing workers for taking sick leave puts Wal-Mart on track to be a major spreader of swine flu this fall. The retail giant gives workers demerits and deducts pay for staying home when they are ...
National Labor Committee Please sign this petition in support of Bangladeshi garment workers who are struggling for a 35-Cent minimum wage!
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Tracy Mullin, President & CEONational Retail Federation325 7th Street, NWWashington, DC 20004Dear Ms. Mullin:We write seeking your and the National Retail Federation’s help in addressing a fundamental ...
National Labor Committee National Labor Committee's shipbreaking campaign featured on The Daily Tell
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The NLC investigates and exposes human and labor rights abuses committed by U.S. companies producing goods in the developing world.
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Images from our NEW report on shipbreaking now up!!
http://www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=676
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Imported frozen broccoli from Guatemala appears to be in the same class as expensive Nike sneakers—at least in regard to the surprisingly large mark-up on their retail prices. (2007)
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The shipbreakers do some of the most dangerous jobs in the world, toiling 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for wages of just 22 to 32 cents an hour, handling and breathing in dangerous toxic waste with ...
National Labor Committee Bangladeshi shipbreakers face death, disfigurement, and paralysis on a daily basis as they dismantle the worldwide shipfleet on the coast of Bangladesh. Earning starvation wages, these young workers (many of them children) can only dream of earning 60 cents an hour. In 30 years' time, international organizations such... as the G-20 and the ILO have done nothing to improve these workers' plight.
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APPENDICESA. – Key OrganizationsB. – Interview with Syeda Rizwana Hasan, BELAC. – Lists of U.S. and Chinese Ships being broken in Bangladesh
National Labor Committee Israeli press continues to closely follow the Musa garments sweatshop case in Jordan: http://www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=667
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Haaretz, August 16, 2009, "I worked 12-hour days, seven days a week, with oneday off per month'" By Dana Weiler-Polak