Assault on Collective Bargaining Illegal, Says International Labor Rights Group

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truth-out.org/assault-collective-bargaining-illegal-says-international-labor-rights-group68423

The International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) sent a notice to the Wisconsin Legislature, explaining that its attempt to strip collective bargaining rights from public workers is illegal.

Anyone who has watched the events unfolding in Wisconsin and other states that are trying to remove collective bargaining rights from public workers has heard people protesting the loss of their "rights." The ICLR explained to the legislature exactly what these rights are and why trying to take them away is illegal.

The ICLR is a New York-based nongovernmental organization that coordinates a pro bono network of labor lawyers and experts throughout the world. It investigates labor rights violations and issues reports and amicus briefs on issues of labor law.

The ICLR identified the right of "freedom of association" as a fundamental right and affirmed that the right to collective bargaining is an essential element of freedom of association. These rights, which have been recognized worldwide, provide a brake on unchecked corporate or state power.

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[grahamhgreen]

1. Kick

[EC]

2. That's why we have to get

JoAnne Kloppenburg elected April 5th to the WI Supreme Court.

[RainDog]

4. hope this over-reach will put her over the top

from outside of WI, it looks like a laboratory for democracy - power grabs by corporate and govt corruption and a fight to take back this ground from the left.

[demosincebirth]

3. What gets me is how many of the state workers in Wisconsin

voted for those fuckers who took away their collective bargaining rights? What I don't understand is why working people vote against their best interest? I have been in t he labor movement for 40years and still don't understand it. The best answer I can come up with is that they are uneducated in the sense of what is morally right vs morally wrong. Not only the state workers, but all unionized in Wisconsin and all the rest of the country.

[themadstork]

5. I'm guessing they're victims of corporate propaganda

I cannot believe how many people take the FOX lies as factual truth. When you cite sources and show them they're wrong, they go ad hominem or change the subject. Why do so many people need to turn the way we run our government into their personal little religion? There are sports team for that.

[Hannah Bell]

6. kr