National Labor Committee

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The struggle for rule of law in the global economy--to ensure respect for the fundamental rights of the millions of workers producing goods for the U.S. market--has become the great new civil rights movement of our time.

The mission of the National Labor Committee is to help defend the human rights of workers in the global economy. The NLC investigates and exposes human and labor rights abuses committed by U.S. companies producing goods in the developing world.

The NLC's work is helping to coalesce a new and diverse coalition that includes religious, labor, women's, student, civil rights, solidarity, policy and grassroots groups to catalyze popular campaigns based on our original research to promote worker rights and pressure companies to end human and labor abuses.

The National Labor Committee views worker rights in the global economy as indivisible and inalienable human rights and we believe that now is the time to secure them for all on the planet.

For more information about working conditions throughout the world and what you can do to help, visit our website at www.nlcnet.org

The shipbreakers do some of the most dangerous jobs in the world, toiling 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for wages of just 22 to 32 cents an hour, handling and breathing in dangerous toxic waste with no safeguards whatsoever and under conditions that violate every local and international labor law. Injuries happen every day—some are paralyzed for life—and a worker dies every three or four weeks.

Labor rights violations in China increase as Chinese labor laws are blatantly and routinely ignored.

Huge Victory for Workers across the Developing World! Metro returns to R.L. Denim/Bangldesh!

Is a Bargain on a Pair of Jeans Worth a Young Woman’s Life? President Obama Thinks Not

The Dehumanization of Young Workers Producing Our Computer Keyboards

Toyota Linked to Labor Abuses Including Human Trafficking

New Legislation Will Prohibit Sale of Sweatshop Goods in the U.S.

Abusive and Illegal Conditions Endured by Young Women Sewing Daisy Fuentes Garments.

The Dirty Little Secret behind the flashy, best-selling Bratz dolls.

The pictures in the slideshow above are of kids at the Harvest Rich factory in Bangladesh, which makes clothing for Wal-Mart, Hanes and J.C. Penney. These child workers say they are 11-14 years old. The companies say they are "malnourished adults."

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