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- Northwest Territories and Nunavut - Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) - Oversees the laws that protects workers, and provides workers' compensation insurance for workers, paid by employers. [English, French, Inuktitut]
- Catholic Worker - Jumping-off point for the Catholic Worker Roundtable, the Dorothy Day Library on the Web, and other Catholic Worker links. Also a list of Catholic Worker houses with web pages.
- United Auto Workers (UAW) - Represents workers in the auto industry as well as aircraft manufacture and other industries in the U.S. -- Canadian section broke off to form the Canadian Auto Workers in the 1980s.
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers - Represents nearly one million workers in machine and aerospace industries. General information, current organizing activities and issues, information on workers' rights, statistics, congressional contacts, voting records, press releases and labor news.
- Community and Youth Workers Union - Trade union for youth and community workers, play workers, mentors and personal advisors. Provides news, reports and information on health and safety and rights.
- National Employment Law Project - A national advocacy organization for employment rights of lower-wage workers. Site includes news, policy papers, and "know your rights" publications, mostly geared toward low-wage workers' rights. Includes sections on immigrant workers, unemployment insurance, non-standard workers, and work/family conflicts.
- - Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers - The Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers was founded in 1996 by sex workers, former sex workers and our allies. We are part of the international struggle for the rights of people in the sex trade and for the decriminalization of our lives and our work. Both English and French translations available on this website.
- Justica For Migrant Workers - Activists based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada promoting the rights of seasonal Caribbean and Mexican migrant farm workers who annually participate in the federal government's Caribbean and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (known as SAW).
- Vancouver (British Columbia) - General Membership Branch - Industrial Workers of the World - Vancouver General Membership Branch is a fighting union for all workers. All workers, all industries.
- IUSW - welcome - The International Union of Sex Workers, Sex Workers Unionization organization. Sex worker rights initiatives include: "Decriminalisation of all aspects of sex work involving consenting adults" and "An end to social attitudes which stigmatise those who are or have been sex workers".
Wikipedia Articles
- Labor rights - Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers, usually obtained under labor and employment law. In general, these rights' debates have to do with negotiating workers' pay, benefits, and safe working conditions.
- Worker Rights Consortium - The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is an independent labor rights monitoring organization focused on protecting the rights of workers who sew apparel and make other products sold in the United States, particularly those bearing college or university logos. The WRC conducts independent, in-depth investigations, issues public reports on factories producing for major global brands, and aids ...
- United Farm Workers - The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union that evolved from unions founded in 1962 by César Chávez, Philip Vera Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong. This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers almost overnight, when the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) went out on strike in support of the mostly Filipino farmworkers of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by Larry Itliong in ...
- Party for Defence of Workers Rights - Party for Defence of Workers Rights (in Albanian: Partia për Mbrojtjen e të Drejtave të Punëtorëve) is a political party in Albania. The party chairman is Kadri Mehmet Isufaj.
- United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families - The United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families is an international agreement governing the matters described in the title.