Book DescriptionWe are not shy about reporting human rights abuses around the globe We are much more reluctant to recognize them at home This book exposes the violations of human rights witnessed daily in workplaces across our country Based on detailed case studies in a variety of sectors, it reveals an "unfair advantage" in U S law and озсга practice that allows employers to fire or otherwise punish thousands of workers as they seek to exercise their rights of association and to exclude millions more fromlaws that protect their rights to bargain and to organize Unfair Advantage approaches workers use of organizing, collective bargaining, and strikes as an exercise of basic rights where workers are autonomous actors, not objects of unionsor employers institutional interests Both historical experience and a review of current conditions around the world indicate that strong, independent, democratic trade unions are vital for societies where human rights are respected In Lance Compas view, human rights cannot flourish where workers rights are not enforced While researching workers exercise of these rights in different industries, occupations, and regions of the United States, Human Rights Watch found that freedom of association is under severe, often buckling pressure when workers in the United States try to exercise it Cornell University Press is making this valuable report, originally published in August 2000, available again as a paperback with a new introduction and conclusion that bring the story up-to-date.  Благодаря2004 г ISBN 0801489644.