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“Work is more than a way to make
a living; it is an expression of our dignity and a form of continuing participation
in God’s creation. People have a right to decent and productive
work, to decent and fair wages, to private property and economic initiative.
Workers have the strong support of the Church in forming and joining union
and worker associations of their choosing in the exercise of their dignity and
rights. These values are at the heart of Rerum Novarum
and other encyclicals on economic justice. In Catholic teaching, the economy exists to
serve people, not the other way around.”
US Catholic Bishops “A Century of Social Teaching National Labor Committee http://www.nlcnet.org/news/ 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 undertakes public education, research
and popular campaigns that empower U.S. citizens to support the efforts of workers to learn and defend
their rights. United Students Against
Sweatshops http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/ United
Students Against Sweatshops is an international student
movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor
conditions and workers' rights. We define 'sweatshop' broadly and recognize that
it is not limited to the apparel industry, but everywhere among us. CoopAmerica:Economic
Action for a Just Planet http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/ Sweatshops
and child labor are a growing problem, particularly in clothing and textiles.
And many popular agricultural products, from coffee to bananas to cut flowers,
are grown under terrible conditions. International Program on the Elimination of
Child Labor www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/ IPEC's
aim is to work towards
the progressive elimination of child labour by strengthening national capacities
to address child labour problems, and by creating a worldwide movement to combat
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