UN reports find that these women, largely unprotected by labor laws, are at extreme risk for labor exploitation and abuse.
Even though the obvious solution to be unprotected in labor negotiations is, in fact, to get your act together and act collectively, commentators have claimed that there is a nationwide repudiation of unions, and in particular, of public sector unions.
Children living on farms are at a higher risk than hired workers, and are unprotected by child labor laws.
It is unconscionable that workers who are entrusted with the care of some of the nation's most vulnerable citizens are themselves unprotected by basic labor standards.
The men — all employees of the biggest hypermarket chain in the nation, run by the French retail giant Carrefour — said the company was violating their rights by paying them as contract workers, unprotected by strict Indonesian labor laws.
Jobs fled to cheaper labor markets, unprotected by U.S. health and safety standards.
"These trends appear to be increasing over the past decade," the report said, "with large numbers of employees misclassified and therefore unprotected by the most basic labor rights".
Yet our workforce will remain weakened as long as a large segment of the labor market is unprotected.
1248, 88 L.Ed. 1542 19444), in which the Court held that a labor union is a collective entity unprotected by the Fifth Amendment.
