Unfair Advantage : Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards / Lance Compa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Compa, Lance, author.

Series:

A Human Rights Watch Book Series

A Human Rights Watch Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of association--United States.

Freedom of association.

Labor unions--Organizing--United States.

Labor unions.

Labor laws and legislation--United States.

Labor laws and legislation.

Unfair labor practices--United States.

Unfair labor practices.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 220 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

We are not shy about reporting human rights abuses around the globe. We are much more reluctant to recognize them at home. This book exposes the violations of human rights witnessed daily in workplaces across our country. Based on detailed case studies in a variety of sectors, it reveals an "unfair advantage" in U.S. law and practice that allows employers to fire or otherwise punish thousands of workers as they seek to exercise their rights of association and to exclude millions more from laws that protect their rights to bargain and to organize. Unfair Advantage approaches workers' use of organizing, collective bargaining, and strikes as an exercise of basic rights where workers are autonomous actors, not objects of unions' or employers' institutional interests. Both historical experience and a review of current conditions around the world indicate that strong, independent, democratic trade unions are vital for societies where human rights are respected. In Lance Compa's view, human rights cannot flourish where workers' rights are not enforced. While researching workers' exercise of these rights in different industries, occupations, and regions of the United States, Human Rights Watch found that freedom of association is under severe, often buckling pressure when workers in the United States try to exercise it. Cornell University Press is making this valuable report, originally published in August 2000, available again as a paperback with a new introduction and conclusion that bring the story up-to-date.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION, 2004

NOTE ON METHODOLOGY

I. SUMMARY

II. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

III. WORKERS' FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION UNDER INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

IV. FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION UNDER U.S. LABOR LAW

V. CASE STUDIES OF VIOLATIONS OFWORKERS' FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION

VI. LEGAL OBSTACLES TO U.S. WORKERS' EXERCISE OF FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION

CONCLUSION, 2004

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Notes:

"A Human Rights Watch Book."

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9781501722639

1501722638

OCLC:

1080549464