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Economic Justice
Workers' Rights are Human Rights
Economic justice is essential for securing basic human rights, alleviating local and global poverty, and achieving a more peaceful and just world. As a human rights and social justice organization, UUSC embraces a vision of economic human rights, recognizing that workers' rights are human rights.
Supporting Workers' Rights
UUSC is committed to defending and supporting workers' right to organize, especially laborers marginalized by race, language, and/or gender who are, therefore, most vulnerable to exploitation. Within the United States, UUSC applies several strategies to achieve this objective.
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Advancing the Fair Wage Movement
Raising the minimum wage above poverty level is perhaps the most effective way to combat poverty and support the human rights of children, women, and people of color in the United States. No other single issue or movement can so directly improve workers' lives in this country.
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Promoting Fair Trade
Fair trade is a set of principles and practices that more equitably
distributes wealth and provides producers and farmers with a living
wage. Supporting fair trade is central to UUSC's commitment to strengthening human rights and dignity for workers in the global economy.
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Read more about UUSC's pursuit of economic justice:
Featured Stories about Economic Justice
 UUSC economic justice partner Fernando Garcia is in Phoenix to raise the level of national outrage against the new Arizona immigration law.
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 On Thursday, May 27, UUSC staff attended a Jobs with Justice rally in support of striking workers from the Shaw's warehouse in Methuen, Mass., who were marching 60 miles to pressure Shaw's into good-faith collective bargaining.
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