Workers’ Rights
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Labor rights and farmworkers’ rights
Tags Share Remarks made at 2012 RFK Human Rights Award ceremony My name is Librada Paz. Librada means liberty and Paz means peace. So my name is also my work. I am of the indigenous Mixtec people from southern Mexico. The history of the Mixtec is much older than the United States. Like so many…
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Driving Inclusion and Dignity at Work: Reflections on SHRM Inclusion 2022
Tags Share The research is clear: a persistent gap sits between what employees report they are experiencing and what employers believe their workplace and culture are delivering. In fact, while over 80% of employers believe that employees are treated with dignity and respect at their organization regardless of their job, role or level, only 65…
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Why the customer is NOT always right
Tags Share By Jeffrey Siminoff If you’ve visited Indiana University Health recently, you may have spotted the sign saying, “Please take responsibility for the energy you bring into this space. Your words matter. Your behaviors matter. Our patients and our teams matter. Take a slow, deep breath and make sure your energy is in check…
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‘This is the moment’: Why ending subminimum wage will help protect the dignity of workers
Tags Share Allen, a restaurant worker in Brooklyn, dreams of a day he can earn a stable wage and work in an industry no longer rife with sexual harassment, abuse, and discrimination by customers and fellow employees, he told nearly 300 attendees at the Robert F. Kennedy Compass Investors Summer Conference. That’s a goal more…
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Working Well: Jeffrey Siminoff On How Companies Are Creating Cultures That Support & Sustain Mental, Emotional, Social, Physical & Financial Wellness
Tags Share In an interview with Karen Mangia, SVP of Workplace Dignity Jeffrey Siminoff discusses the impact of employees’ wellness on an organization’s productivity and profitability, and how RFK Human Rights prioritizes the emotional, mental, and financial wellness of its employees. Despite treatment for mental health disorders being shown to deliver a 400% ROI through…
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Address to Migrant Workers in Support of Cesar Chavez
Tags Share This is a historic occasion. We have come here out of respect for one of the heroic figures of our time—Cesar Chavez. But I also come here to congratulate all of you, you who are locked with Cesar in the struggle for justice for the farm worker, and the struggle for justice for…
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Address to the American Trucking Associations
Tags Share There is a compelling need for a reevaluation of our public attitudes toward political life. The national attitude that politics is somehow a degrading occupation for which no man of intelligence or ambition should aspire is becoming too deeply ingrained in our national thinking. There have been many jokes directed at politics. I…
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Speech at the Inland Daily Press Association
Tags Share I very much appreciate your invitation to be here today and discuss with you some of the problems we have uncovered so far in our investigation, as well as some of the areas in which legislation is being considered. The committee…has heard over 250 different witnesses in some 130 sessions. We have received…
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Speech at the United Auto Workers Regional conference
Tags Share Tonight I want to speak with you not about labor unions, but about the common future of those who labor; about what has too often happened to the great American dream, and about how we can bring new opportunities to millions of Americans. The Americans of whom I speak, however, are not the…
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RFK Compass Investors 2022 SXSW Conference
Tags Share “Every asset class has been leveraged in the growth of mass incarceration and every asset class must be a part of decarceration. We are asking investors to align their capital with our values.” –Christina Hollenback The RFK Compass Investors team successfully hosted its very first panel at SXSW in Austin Texas on March…
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Honor, don’t denigrate, the dignity of front-line workers
Tags Share New York’s new mayor has recently twice diminished the dignity of workers who for years now have been on the front lines and otherwise lauded — rightly so – as essential. Arguing that businesses need to remain open so service establishments can be patronized, the Mayor said, “My low-skilled workers, my cooks, my…
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RFK Human Rights wants employers to safeguard ‘workplace dignity’
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights launched a new Workplace Dignity initiative on Oct. 6 to advise employers on how their employees are valued and treated at work.
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