> Article 23
>
> (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of
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employment, to just and
> favourable conditions of work and to protection against
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unemployment.
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> (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
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> (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring
> for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if
> necessary, by other means of social protection.
> (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his
> interests.
The "right to work".... I like this. Tony, do you know which countries
signed this and thereby agreed to the implementation of this
declaration. I think it would be interesting to see how many countries
are acting hypocritically in light of these rights that they have
supposedly agreed to. If a country is found violating these "universal
human rights," is there any recourse other than hoping Amnesty
International will pursue a court case or letter-writing campaign????
--Brian
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"If it is correct, as I believe it is, that a fundamental element of
human nature is the need for creative work or creative inquiry, for free
creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive
institutions, then of course it will follow that a decent society should
maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to
be realized. Now, a federated, decentralized system of free associations
incorporating economic as well as social institutions would be what I
refer to as anarcho-syndicalism. And it seems to me that it is the
appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological
society, in which human beings do not have to be forced into the
position of tools, of cogs in a machine. " -- Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT
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