In Japan, an employee committed hara-kiri, or ritual suicide, in the office of Bridgestone's president last year, to draw attention to the cause of workers asked to leave the company.
Mr Sam Rainsy, a former finance minister, is well liked in Cambodia for his courageous attacks on graft in the ruling party and its other abuses and for vigorously taking up the cause of workers.He says his party's gains in this poll will provide the springboard that propels him to greater success in next year's parliamentary elections.
A former judge, governor of Michigan and U.S. attorney general who had gained widespread attention for his commitment to civil rights and the cause of workers, he was nominated to the Court by Franklin Roosevelt, and he was the last Catholic nominated to the Court by a Democratic president until Judge Sotomayor was nominated this year.
Even if the cause of workers' rights doesn't move you, the rapid aging of the population should.
Literally giving his life for the cause of workers' rights and the right of dignity for every man, woman and child, Dr. King would be appalled to see the attacks today on unions and the labor force.
Webster and his cohorts eventually succeeded in wedding the causes of workers' rights to civil rights more broadly, and gained recognition from the largest federation of American unions.
Earlier in the day, about 1,000 people protested peacefully at a rally that united the causes of workers' and immigrant rights with the Black Lives Matter movement, which arose from outrage of the police killings of unarmed black men around the country.
Pinpointing the cause of a worker's ailment is an inexact science because it is so difficult to rule out the role played by personal habits, toxins in the environment or other factors.
And while an individual unit owner who hires a window washer for domestic cleaning is probably not covered by Section 202 of the Labor Law, he said, the rules governing common law negligence could expose a unit owner to liability if it could be shown that the owner's negligence was the cause of a worker's injury.
In the past year, a dozen state legislatures have proposed requiring unemployment claimants to pass a drug test, but federal law currently bars them from denying benefits for reasons unrelated to the cause of a worker's job loss, except for fraud or if a person is earning too much from other work.
