Today in labor history Jan 30 (ILO) - watchdog for workers' rights across the globe - was founded

Omaha Steve

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Fri Jan-30-09 07:16 AM
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Today in labor history Jan 30 (ILO) - watchdog for workers' rights across the globe - was founded

January 30

January 30, 1919 - The International Labor Organization (ILO) - watchdog for workers' rights across the globe - was founded. For more on the ILO, go its website, www.ilo.org

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Fri Jan-30-09 07:26 AM
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1. FDR's birthday too. nt

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Diabolita23

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Fri Jan-30-09 10:44 AM
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2. auspicious

Edited on Fri Jan-30-09 10:46 AM by Diabolita23

Wow, that's a very cool anniversary in that it's also FDR's b-day. Say, how do you feel about the EFCA? (Employee Free Choice Act). I read about it in the book Thinking Big (http://thinkingbigthebook.com) in an essay called "Building Shared Prosperity" by Lawrence Mishel and Nancy Cleeland. It basically allows workers in the US to vote themselves into a union. Honestly, I didn't know that we WEREN'T allowed to do that... I'm totally in favor of the idea, and of the larger idea in that essay of reconnecting pay with productivity.

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