U.S. Senators Mark Dayton and Paul Wellstone and Lance Compa, author of a groundbreaking study on worker rights violations in the United States, will speak at a rally and forum Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Teamsters Local 120 hall.
The theme is 'Where is the Justice? A Rally and Forum on Worker's Rights."
Minnesota Teamsters Joint Council 32 is sponsoring the event, which will start at 10 a.m. at the Local 120 hall, 2635 University Ave. W., St. Paul (off of Highway 280, next to KSTP). It is free and open to the public.
Compa is a professor at Cornell University and author of 'Unfair Advantage: Workers Freedom of Association in the U.S. under International Human Rights Standards,' published by Human Rights Watch. His study concludes that because of systematic violations and long delays by employers, the United States is violating international agreements guaranteeing the right of workers to form unions.
'Most people view these issues as just a labor-management dispute,' Compa told the New York Times after releasing his report. 'But we think the focus should be that there is a right of freedom of association, recognized under international law, and that right is being widely denied in the United States.'
Wellstone has authored or supported several legislative efforts to strengthen worker rights, but Congress has taken no action on the issue in several years. Dayton, who visited several picketlines during his campaign for U.S. Senate last year, has said labor law needs to be reformed.
In addition to Compa, Dayton and Wellstone, speakers at the rally and forum will include International Brotherhood of Teamsters Secretary-Treasurer Tom Keegel and the Rev. Nancy Anderson, pastor at Minnehaha United Church of Christ. Anderson and other members of the Twin Cities Religion-Labor Network have been active in supporting workers' efforts to join unions and achieve fair contracts.
Read the "Unfair Advantage" report at the Human Rights Watch website, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/uslabor/
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U.S. Senators Mark Dayton and Paul Wellstone and Lance Compa, author of a groundbreaking study on worker rights violations in the United States, will speak at a rally and forum Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Teamsters Local 120 hall.
The theme is ‘Where is the Justice? A Rally and Forum on Worker’s Rights.”
Minnesota Teamsters Joint Council 32 is sponsoring the event, which will start at 10 a.m. at the Local 120 hall, 2635 University Ave. W., St. Paul (off of Highway 280, next to KSTP). It is free and open to the public.
Compa is a professor at Cornell University and author of ‘Unfair Advantage: Workers Freedom of Association in the U.S. under International Human Rights Standards,’ published by Human Rights Watch. His study concludes that because of systematic violations and long delays by employers, the United States is violating international agreements guaranteeing the right of workers to form unions.
‘Most people view these issues as just a labor-management dispute,’ Compa told the New York Times after releasing his report. ‘But we think the focus should be that there is a right of freedom of association, recognized under international law, and that right is being widely denied in the United States.’
Wellstone has authored or supported several legislative efforts to strengthen worker rights, but Congress has taken no action on the issue in several years. Dayton, who visited several picketlines during his campaign for U.S. Senate last year, has said labor law needs to be reformed.
In addition to Compa, Dayton and Wellstone, speakers at the rally and forum will include International Brotherhood of Teamsters Secretary-Treasurer Tom Keegel and the Rev. Nancy Anderson, pastor at Minnehaha United Church of Christ. Anderson and other members of the Twin Cities Religion-Labor Network have been active in supporting workers’ efforts to join unions and achieve fair contracts.
Read the “Unfair Advantage” report at the Human Rights Watch website, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/uslabor/