Everyone
has the right to work, to free choice of employment,
to just and favourable conditions of work and to
protection against unemployment.
Article 23.1
Everyone,
without any discrimination, has the right to equal
pay for equal work.
Article 23.2
Everyone
who works has the right to just and favourable
remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an
existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented,
if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Article 23.3
Everyone
has the right to form and to join trade unions for
the protection of his interests.
Article 23.4
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When mass government persecutions begin,
labor organizers are often among the first to be jailed,
"disappeared," or assassinated. Workers' rights
activists insist that anyone expecting to benefit from
the labor of workers must respect the rights of workers.
Safe working conditions, in addition to free speech, free
association, and equal access to due process of the law,
are foundations of workers' rights. Get more background
information . . .
Act Now:
Request and Read
Consider the
universal right to work from an international
perspective, or review a photographic essay on child
labor with portraits of working children.
Act Locally
Use Labor Day to
focus community attention on the achievements of workers
and to link those achievements with respect for workers'
human rights.
Act Nationally or Internationally
Ask your Senator to
eliminate U.S. sweatshops that subject workers to
hazardous conditions, pay low wages for long hours, and
use child or forced labor.
Grab a Partner
Support UNITE
(Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile
Employees) and the National Consumers League in their
"Stop Sweatshops" campaign.
Raise Your Voice
Ask the Indonesian
Attorney General to release 24-year-old Dita Indah Sari -
beaten and sentenced to 5-years in prison for peacefully
promoting workers' rights.
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