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Labor unions win, drug companies lose in new trade deal

The big winners and losers from the Trump administration’s deal with Democrats on its NAFTA replacement, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, are not necessarily the traditional ones. Pharmaceutical companies, which usually see …

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New NAFTA’s Labor Terms Sway AFL-CIO, But Not All Unions on Board

The nation’s largest union umbrella organization is now supporting the new North American trade pact based on recent revisions to labor terms that not all unions are immediately ready to …

AMLO manda a Senado convenio para derechos de trabajadoras domésticas

Ocho años después de suscrito, el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador remitió al Senado para su ratificación el Convenio 189 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), sobre el reconocimiento a derechos …

Labor Took on “Bad Bosses” Long Before #MeToo

“Will There Ever Be a #MeToo-Style Movement for Bad Bosses?” New York magazine asked readers in a tone-deaf fog of obliviousness last month. The piece itself was fairly benign, addressing the long-standing and profoundly …

Antitrust, the Gig Economy, and Labor Market Power

Worker bargaining power has diminished over the last forty years. Between 1948 and 1979, median wages closely tracked output per worker.1 Since then, productivity has continued to increase (until leveling …

Behind the Smiles: Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed

When Candice Dixon showed up for her first day of work at an Amazon warehouse in Eastvale, California, she stepped into a wonder of automation, efficiency and speed. Inside the …

The PRO Act and Workplace Fissuring

For too many people, work means low pay, unpredictable hours, and nonexistent opportunities for advancement. A major reason for this dire situation is what David Weil has termed “workplace fissuring.” Fissuring occurs …

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How protecting immigrant farmworkers benefits everyone in the food chain

Suppose all the people in US without proper documentation did all just leave one day. Millions, back to their countries of origin. What next? Well, those of us left behind …

Compendio sobre la igualdad y no discriminación. Estándares Interamericanos

La CIDH ha elaborado este compendio con el propósito de brindar una herramienta de cooperación técnica a disposición de los usuarios y usuarias del sistema, operadores estatales de políticas públicas, …

Equality and Non-Discrimination: Inter-American Standards Compendium

The IACHR has prepared the present compendium for the purpose of providing a technical cooperation tool to be made available to users of the system, State agents of public policies, …

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