New Economic Bill of Rights


	New Economic Bill of Rights

faberglas

8-13-2007 2:28 PM

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	</P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">the right to equal pay for equal or comparable work
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	</P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively.
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	</P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">the right to adequate health care
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	</P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">the right to a decent home
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	</P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">the right to a good education - from preschool through college
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	</P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">the right to paid leave for the care of newborns & sick family members
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	</P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of illness, old age,
	disability, accident and unemployment
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	</P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">the right to national and international regulations ensuring fair labor practices,
	environmental sustainability and worker/consumer health safety.
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<P>As President Roosevelt declared in a message to Congress on the 1937 Fair Labor
Standards Act: "Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary
standard of decency should be regarded as contraband </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lightparty.com/Economic/EconomicBill.html">We already have economic bills
of rights for corporations</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lightparty.com/Economic/EconomicBill.html">North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/64B88A82-77DC-4F2B-A03A-88C8D04FA8DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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