Working for Scrooge: Worst Companies for Union Organizing

[dcsmart]

As human rights advocates around the world celebrated International Human Rights Day on December 10, the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) released “Working for Scrooge: Worst Companies of 2009 for the Right to Associate” – a list of the four worst multinational corporations for union organizing. Among other rights related to workers, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that “everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests” (Article 23, Section 4). The US-based companies on ILRF’s list use intimidation and even violence to violate workers’ internationally recognized right to organize.

Despite the labor rights protections in the UDHR, UN and ILO declarations and national labor laws, workers continue to see their rights trampled on a daily basis. In fact, in its most recently released survey of violations of trade union rights, the International Trade Union Confederation reports at least 76 unionists were killed globally as a result of their organizing efforts in 2008.
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FULL ARTICLE
http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/worst-companies/

The companies on this year’s list include: Dole, Kohl's, Kraft and Nestlé. To find out more, please read the full report.
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SOURCE SITE AND PDF
http://www.laborrights.org/freedom-at-work/resources/12234

[Warpy]

1. Add most hospitals to this list

We got 90+% of the night shift to sign cards during an organizing effort.

Union busters--and the place spent millions on them--were around during the day, camped in break rooms and threatening jobs verbally. Less than 20% of the day shift were brave enough to sign cards.

The last people the corporatocracy wants organized are health care workers.