Labor rights
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Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers, usually obtained under labor and employment law. In general, these rights' debates have to do with negotiating workers' pay, benefits, and safe working conditions. One of the most central of these rights is the right to unionize. Unions take advantage of collective bargaining and industrial action to increase their members' wages and otherwise change their working situation. Labor rights can also take in the form of worker's control and worker's self management in which workers have a democratic voice in decision and policy making. The labor movement initially focused on this "right to unionize", but attention has shifted elsewhere.
See also
- Journal of Individual Employment Rights
- Economic, social and cultural rights
- Decent work
- Industrial democracy
- Labor and employment law
- Occupational health
- Union Organizer
- Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights
- Workers' council
- Worker cooperative
- Workplace democracy
- Strike action
- Syndicalism
- Social clause
- Right to work
- Socialism
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