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 instrument for combating poverty and supporting the human rights of children, women, and people of color in the United States. No other single issue or movement can so directly improve the lives of the working poor 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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UUSC’s Small Farmer Fund For every pound of fair trade products sold through the UUSC Coffee Project, a contribution is made to UUSC's Small Farmer Fund.		Reverse Trick-or-Treating During Halloween, companies like Nestle USA enjoy their biggest sales to children. Unfortunately, chocolate is no treat for the hundreds of thousands of child cocoa laborers who must work to support their families, sometimes toiling under conditions of slavery. But there's something you can do to help end abusive child labor in the cocoa industry - Reverse Trick-or-Treating!