Workers’ Rights
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A more inclusive economy is a healthy economy
Tags Share New York City Comptroller Brad Lander shared that there is a “real opportunity to build a more inclusive economy, but we are going to have to be more courageous and more disciplined about it,” while speaking at the opening panel of the second day of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Compass Summer…
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Blair LM Kelley traces the history of the Black working class
Tags Share On Tuesday, July 23rd, RFK Human Rights hosted its July Book Club featuring the recipient of the 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair LM Kelley and moderated by historian and author Ted Widmer. This work spans two hundred years―from one…
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Heat, Humidity, and Inhumanity: Inside Florida’s Heat Protection Preemption Law
Tags Share Florida is the hottest state in the US. Yet, Governor Ron DeSantis just signed a bill banning local measures aimed at protecting outdoor workers from extreme heat exposure. This decision displays not only cruelty but also reflects a shortsightedness that harms the well-being of Floridians. The evidence is extensive: extreme heat poses severe…
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N.Y. farm workers are being denied their rights
Tags Share Writing in the New York Daily News, our president Kerry Kennedy highlights recent attempts to stop vulnerable New York farm workers from organizing. Apple and vegetable workers at five upstate companies recently voted to be represented by the United Farm Workers, a union founded by Cesar Chavez with support from Kerry’s father Robert…
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Senate Speech
Properly used technology should not displace workers, but should speed them on their way to new jobs more quickly
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Statement Before the United States Senate
Our great companies operate in every state in the union. Their manufacturing operations are often spread over dozens of states; they buy their materials and sell their products every
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Of some 400,000 domestic migratory workers, 92,000 could find work for less than 25 days in 1960. The remainder, who’d worked more than 25 days, earned an average of $1,000 for the year.
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Statement on Federal Metal and Non-Metallic Mine Safety Bill
National Safety Council accident statistics show clearly that miners and mill workers are more likely to be seriously injured or killed than workers in almost any other industry
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Address at the Dinner Honoring Congressman James C. Corman at the Sportsmen’s Lodge, Los Angeles, California
Almost every man now working in the United States will have to change jobs, perhaps two or three times, and his lifetime. That will require new education for all our people—for those who could not complete college in the past, and even those who did.
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Address at the National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
No sector of the American economy, no group of Americans, has made greater contributions to our strength, our national prosperity, the health and amenity of our lives, than the American farmer
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Address at the National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
It is sometimes said that the decline in total net farm income is not so bad because more than 2 and 1/2 million farmers have left the land since World War I
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Address at the Seattle World’s Fair
We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor;
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