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… Nearly four decades ago, Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, promising America's workers the right to a safe job.  While progress has been made since the OSH Act was passed, the toll of workplace injuries, illnesses and … to pursue their case if OSHA fails to act in a timely fashion and writes into the law a worker's right to refuse unsafe work.  The bill makes clear that employers cannot retaliate against a worker for reporting a job injury or illness and …

… took place in August 2020. Since those disputed elections, thousands of workers have participated in peaceful protests to express their demands for free and fair elections and democratic governance in Belarus. Through strikes and other legal … violence. Workers have been beaten, tortured and threatened with arrest and job loss for their efforts to exercise their right to freedom of association. The government of Belarus has accelerated its aggressive actions to crush worker protests, … Belarus has ratified International Labor Organization Conventions 87 on Freedom of Association and the Protection of the Right to Organize, and 98 on the Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively as well as other international standards. …

… Federation of Teachers and as president of New York's United Federation of Teachers. But no office was more important to him than the service of the education and well-being of children. He has earned a place in history as a man whose courage, … yet he was a very personal hero to millions of working men and women around the world. Al Shanker fought as hard for the right of every child to have an education of the highest quality as he did for the right of every teacher to stand up for respect, dignity and justice in the workplace. By word and by example, he encouraged …

… billion trade deficit with communist China, importing $152 billion worth of goods while exporting only $28 billion, a five-to-one ratio of imports to exports. The trade deficit with China is the largest the United States has ever had with any country in our history, and the most lopsided with any major trading partner. Proponents of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) claimed that WTO membership would reduce the trade deficit, arguing that China would …

… In recognition of her extraordinary courage, strength and dedication to the cause of workers’ rights and justice in Colombia, and for her steadfast commitment to ending impunity for all those responsible for the violence committed against Colombian trade unionists and other human … like the hundreds of recent killings of union leaders, and that she was not going to allow her father’s cause and life’s work to be silenced . She made clear that her father and his life were her example, and that she was going to demand justice …