Workplace Dignity and Workers’ Rights
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Capitol Weekly: The struggle of incarcerated workers
Tags Share In Capitol Weekly, Fanta NGom, RFK Human Right’s Director of Business and Human Rights, critiques California’s refusal to pay fair wages to incarcerated firefighters battling recent wildfires. Ngom highlights how this practice exposes systemic inequality and the inhumane treatment inherent in prison labor systems across the country. Read the full article here.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Forced prison labor in the “Land of the Free” From fighting wildfires to toiling in the kitchens of some of the country’s most popular food franchises, incarcerated workers perform vital functions across the United States and produce billions of dollars in value for the public and private sectors. Yet they are paid very little (between…
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Workplace Dignity Workshop
The Business and Human Rights department will be hosting a workplace dignity education series in New York City for investors, including their investment teams and portfolio company leadership.
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#NoExcuse for US Investors: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the World of Work
Tags Share As we await the impacts of the new administration’s economic policies, institutional investors and asset managers can strengthen their portfolios by proactively addressing gender-based violence and harassment within both their workplaces and investments. Violence and harassment persists across the supply chain, with one in five workers reporting such experiences—and the financial sector is…
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Charting the Course: Q&A with Saru Jayaraman, One Fair Wage President
Tags Share In this edition of Charting the Course, Saru Jayaraman reflects on the importance of centering workers and their dignity, her excitement about today’s campaigns—including critical ballot initiatives this November, and what investors can do today to support workers across the supply chain. “The opportunity of delivering wages increases for people is that people…
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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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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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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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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Have you ever told a coal miner in West Virginia or Kentucky that what he needs is individual initiative to go out and get a job where there isn’t any?
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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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Speech
The job of providing constructive and challenging opportunities for young people throughout the nation is every citizen’s business.
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
When we talk about birthright we talk about the right of opportunity, the right of opportunity to succeed or fail on individual talents unfettered by man-made barriers. That is what gives a man his dignity.
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