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Call to Restore Democracy While We Still Can; US Ranks Near Bottom on Treatment of Workers
A National Call to Link Arms for Democracy. Americans only have a small window of opportunity to break the grip of moneyed interests on our government before an advancing oligarchy consolidates power and locks in tyranny. A mass-based political movement must urgently be organized to restore democracy.
International Report Ranks US Poorly for Treatment of Workers. A new report by the International Trade Union Confederation, an umbrella organization of unions around the world, sheds light on the state of workers’ rights across 139 countries. The group ranks each country on a scale of 1 (the best protections) to 5 (the worst protections). The study found that in at least 35 countries, workers have been arrested or imprisoned “as a tactic to resist demands for democratic rights, decent wages, safer working conditions and secure jobs.” In a minimum of nine countries, murder and disappearance are regularly used to intimidate workers. Denmark was the only country in the world to achieve a perfect score, meaning that the nation abides by all 97 indicators of workers’ rights. The U.S., embarrassingly, scored a 4, indicating “systematic violations” and “serious efforts to crush the collective voice of workers.”
Sources: Popular Resistance, Truthout.
Paul Brown is a retired neuroscience professor whose primary interests are human rights, overpopulation, mass extinction, global warming, and the military-industrial complex. Links to all his Before It’s News articles are at /contributor/pages/189/210/stories.html.
