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Dear colleague: John Gershman, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, 
thought you might be interested in this piece. IRC will be sending 
information in the near future about our newest 'global-local' links 
initiative for this election year. Siri Khalsa / IRC
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February 16, 2004
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Introducing a new commentary from Foreign Policy In Focus

Standing Up For Workers' Rights
By Stewart Acuff

"The boss said he would sell the company or burn it down before he would 
see a union at Sterling." To the cheers of a responsive Washington, D.C. 
audience on December 10, 2003, Sterling Laundry worker Evelyn Thomas vowed 
to continue the battle for the freedom to form a union at her workplace, in 
spite of fierce employer opposition.

Thomas' tale was just one of the dozens of horror stories told by workers 
who rallied on International Human Rights Day to call attention to the 
widespread abuse of the rights of workers. In 90 events in 37 states, tens 
of thousands of workers and their allies campaigned to restore the freedom 
to form a union guaranteed under American law and international human 
rights codes, but sadly eroded in our country today.

Stewart Acuff is the AFL-CIO's Organizing Director (www.afl-cio.org). He 
wrote this piece for Foreign Policy in Focus (www.fpif.org), and a longer 
version appears in the February 2004 issue of New Labor Forum 
(http://qcpages.qc.edu/newlaborforum/).

See complete new FPIF commentary online at:
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0402workers.html

With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0402workers.pdf

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