domingo, 24 de abril de 2011

Proposal

  Many people in the US and in other countries are passing through many injustices in their work place. The work place should be a good place to be. When its not a good place they should have the right to do strikes without the interruption of the police or other groups. People who believe in the freedom to express your self and make things be better should apologize this.

   Years ago the companies and small business star giving works to people who really need the job because they can pay to them less and they are going to keep working, but now its different, people know very good their rights and they start protesting about the bad treatment that the employers have with them. This protest is sometimes peaceful but in the most of the cases they do strikes to show to the people and the government what they want and how they are being treated. In some cases their reach their goal but not all the time, all because they have to stop their strikes because they are interrupted by the police.

    Workers should have the right to protest without interruption if they are not damaging someone else or some property. This could change everything and everyone is in peace and happy. This not mean that the employers have the right to treat their workers badly, they should treat they better and this hole thing can be avoid.

jueves, 21 de abril de 2011

Change!:)

   In 1930's the workers where treated badly, people during this times where very racists. This gave me a good idea of what black people passed through this time. Years have passed and now the workers are treated better but not equal, even when the government has the article 23 that says: "Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal pay".

  Federal and state laws prohibit employment discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, sex, national origin, age, and disability, but these laws provide no protection from other forms of unfairness in the workplace. Laws in most states permit an employee to sue for the "tort for wrongful discharge." This type of law suit provides some relief for employees from the employment at will doctrine, but is not available for unfairness in general. Workplace Fairness advocates changes in the legal relationship between employers and employees, with elimination of the employment at will doctrine, the addition of a requirement for just cause for the termination of employees, and protection for fair treatment of employees in other aspects of employment. Fair treatment is the most important thing in the jobs because all people have to be treated equal, workers deserve to have the best treatment because they are working hard to give to their families what they need.


    Workers have been pass trough many difficulties, but now they have more help from the government. They are treated better than years ago. This is a good change because now people want to work and they are not afraid of what the employers are going to do with them.
   

miércoles, 20 de abril de 2011

Fighting against the unequal treatment!

    An employer cannot discriminate against a particular employee at any stage of employment because of his/her place of origin, ancestral country, or physical, cultural, or linguistic characteristics of a certain nationality. The workers have been working hard to to obtain a job with no discrimination but employers still making it hard to do. Sometimes they have to fight and to do strikes to led their voice be heard.


    Throughout the decades that followed the Triangle Factory Fire, organized labor grew in size and power, and unrest, protests and strikes became part of the ongoing struggle between management and labor over workers’ rights and labor costs, and productivity and profits.  But for many it seemed the stigma of the sweatshop had gone away, that more responsible owners provided stricter accountability and a more mature industry.

    Its amazing what people have to do to be heard by the government. When the government said the the employer can't discriminate people because they are going to pay for it, the people still doing it. This shows the desperation to get money by hurting others and not been fair. 

sábado, 16 de abril de 2011

Oppression

  The workers have been mistreated in many ways through the years. This became a common situation in all work even when the US said that if guest workers complain about abuses, the employers face deportation, blacklisting or other retaliation. Some companies or small businesses do not use proper security measures in the workplace and that is considered abuse of workers.

  In 1911 a tragedy occurred when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located just east of Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. The factory occupied the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the building.On the ninth floor, the owners had locked one of the two exit doors to prevent theft. The fire started in a scrap bin on the eighth floor, where employees then notified the 10th floor switchboard, but the ninth floor never received warning. In the end, 146 people died, most of them Jewish and Italian immigrant women. The tragedy outraged the city and galvanized the labor movement. It instantly became a symbol of the struggle between management and labor that had been percolating for some time and would escalate in its aftermath. This is just one important example of what the workers had past through many years ago and now things have not changed. According to four workers of the Walmart's global business, the model of this is based on creating a system that keeps workers in a cycle of low wages, no voice on the job, and dangerous working conditions. This is violation the article 23 of the United Nations Declaration of Rights that says "Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work."

      It is so sad that the owners of the companies and business of this country did not follow the rules just for save money. All the people have rights and its not fair that some people work allot and the wages are so low. All the people have to be treated equal in any circumstances.




 http://www.history.com/news/2011/03/24/100-years-ago-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire/
http://www.ufcw400.org/2011/04/workers-testify-of-mistreatment-throughout-walmarts-supply-chain/


lunes, 11 de abril de 2011

Workers have rights too!


         By many years, worker claiming some sort of right have attempted to pursue their interests. In the past during the middle ages, the Peasants' Revolt in England expressed demand for better wages and working conditions.  English peasants fought against the enclosure movement, which took traditionally communal lands and made them private.
        The modern concept of labor rights dates to the 19th century after the creation of labor unions following the industrialization processes.  Karl Marx stands out as one of the most prominent and earliest advocates to the workers’ rights. His theory was focused on labor issues and advocates his economic system of socialism, a society which would be ruled by the workers. Recent workers rights advocacy has focused on the particular role, exploitation, and needs of women workers etc.
         The International Labour Organization was formed in 1919 as part of the League of Nations to protect workers’ rights. This Organization (ILO) later became part of the United Nations. The UN itself backed workers rights by incorporating two articles of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. The articles 23 and 24. During the Progressive Era the United States began workplace reforms, which received publicity boosts from Upton Sinclair's he Jungle and events such as the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Handbooks/Core-Labor-Standards/default.asp
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm