From Detroit to Dakar, Senegal, and from Paris to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, workers will learn about their rights in the workplace when the international union movement launches a campaign to post those rights.
On May 1, 2001, the AFL-CIO and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions kicked off an initiative to post the International Labor Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in workplaces, union halls and government offices in 148 nations and territories. Those rights include the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively, reject child labor, refuse forced labor and to work free from discrimination. It is the largest public campaign ever undertaken worldwide by the union movement.
Why are these rights important? Workers’ rights frequently are not respected. In many countries, workers continue to be murdered, tortured and pressed into forced labor and 250 million children are trapped in child labor. In the United States, backward labor laws continue to prevent millions of working families from winning a voice at work by forming unions.
The drive to put up the ILO rights poster around the world is part of the AFL-CIO’s Campaign for Global Fairness and its campaign to guarantee every worker's freedom to choose a Voice@Work. Check out the links on the right and get involved today!
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