Child Labor Coalition
@ChildLaborCLC
Coalition of nearly 40 groups fighting to end exploitative child labor in the U.S. and abroad. Reporters, contact us at: [email protected]
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Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Laureate. Founder - @KSCFIndia @kNOwchildlabour, @BBAIndia. Co-founder @smgc_official. RTs are not endorsements
Satyarthi Foundation
Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation. Together we'll create a child-friendly world. Also follow our founder @K_satyarthi
International Labour Organization
We are the ILO, the UN agency for the world of work. Advancing social justice, promoting decent work, since 1919. Follow our Director-General @GilbertFHoungbo
Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation US
KSCF US supports the work of our founder @k_satyarthi to free every child from #ChildLabor & exploitation, with @KSCFIndia. #EndChildLabour #EndChildMarriage
ITUC
The International Trade Union Confederation is the global voice of working people, representing the rights & interests of 191 million workers in 167 countries.
The Child Labor Coalition stands with Unchained At Last and Alyssa Milano in calling for California to fix its broken #ChildMarriage laws in order to protect vulnerable teen girls.
Shareholders want McDonald's and Wendy’s to take tougher steps to end #ChildLabor -- via the Washington Post. #EndUSChildLabor Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation US National Employment Law Project UFCW
washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…
Employers must do more to root out #ChildLabor in their facilities through internal auditing and enhanced scrutiny of documents that prove workers ages. This work is too dangerous for children.
Mar Jac Poultry is in #ChildLabor trouble again -- 6 teens working illegally in poultry production. #HazardousChildLabor End #USChildLabor
bloomberglaw.com/public/documen…
Today, in 2008, Maria Isavel Vasquez Jimenez died in a California field from #HeatStroke . She was only 17 and pregnant. Since then, laws in California have been improved and national heat stroke standards may be coming--more protections are needed. United Farm Workers
Shareholders want McDonald's and Wendy’s to take tougher steps to end #ChildLabor -- via the Washington Post. #EndUSChildLabor Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation US National Employment Law Project UFCW
washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…
On this day in 1965, Frances Perkins passed away. She was the first female Secretary Labor and served 12 years as DOL secretary. She helped end many egregious forms of #ChildLabor in the 1930s--that battle continues today.
.U.S. Department of Labor fines company $650,000 for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses: Fayette Janitorial Service will pay for illegally hiring at least two dozen children to clean dangerous slaughterhouses in Iowa & Virginia. One child seriously injured. The Guardian
What kind of grinch would deny teen workers a 20-minute lunch break if they work 5 hours or longer? That's what some legislators in #Louisiana are trying to do, weakening current #ChildLabor protections. National Employment Law Project AFL-CIO ✊ New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice UFCW
newrepublic.com/article/181052…
Honored to get this award for our 2023 reporting on #childlabor . Thank you National Press Foundation for this recognition.
Also seeing the Natl Meat Institute Meat Institute released new guidance to prevent child labor. A clear sign the issue is industry-wide.
Didi Martinez Julia E. Ainsley
Did you know that in many U.S. states, it's still legal for minors to be forced into marriage? It was an honor to have Fraidy Reiss, the founder & executive director of Unchained At Last, join us for #GlobalCitizenNOW to shed light on the issue: youtube.com/watch?v=J8Ly_H…
Access to education is key if we hope to reduce growing global #ChildLabor numbers. Around the world, 160 million children are trapped in child labor.
The Connecticut House of Representatives voted to move the ratification of 100-year-old Constitutional Amendment on #ChildLabor to the state Senate. The amendment would guarantee the authority of the US Congress to legislate child labor law.
ctnewsjunkie.com/2024/05/01/hou….
You can't make this up. Another assault on teen worker protections. This one is in Louisiana where legislators think teens who work 5 hours or more don't need lunch breaks/rest breaks. #Madness #EndUSChildLabor Steven Greenhouse Economic Policy Institute
lailluminator.com/briefs/child-l…