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Supporting Workers’ Rights Resources
Listed here are resource materials that provide additional information about UUSC topics and areas of work. You'll find materials such as fact sheets, policy positions, slideshows, curricula and training materials, publications, and links to other organizations and news sources.
Title | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Report: The Hands That Feed Us | The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain is the first report of its kind that looks at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Webinar: Behind the Kitchen Door | Learn how to choose compassionate consumption when you dine out and be part of an exciting national campaign to support workers' rights. | Multimedia Resource |
| Supporting Restaurant Worker Justice | Synopsis of the challenges faced by restaurant workers, our strategy to influence the restaurant industry, and ways you can help. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Values into Action: Organizing Workers, Field to Fork | A workshop conducted at General Assembly 2012 that examined successful models for organizing workers across the food chain to confront systematic violations of labor rights in the food industry. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| UUSC Partners and the Arts | As UUSC advances human rights around the world, we support people as they draw strength from their own experiences and cultures. | Multimedia Resource |
| Is Your Chocolate Bittersweet? | Watch this amusing video about chocolate, and then take action. | Multimedia Resource |
| Pushing Back: Women Workers Speak Out on Trade | In this video, women workers share stories of how CAFTA has led to an increase in labor flexibilization, unemployment, violations of worker rights, and sexual discrimination. | Multimedia Resource |
| Economic Justice Worship Resources | Sermons, order of service, planning materials and other resources to address issues of economic justice in your congregational service. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| UUSC Statement on Oil Drilling Disaster | UUSC is deeply concerned about the catastrophe created by the April 20, 2010, explosion and capsize of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, leased by the multi-billion dollar corporation BP and located in the Gulf of Mexico. | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| The Big Squeeze | In this webinar, we explore critical issues facing both white- and blue-collar workers in today’s turbulent economy with New York Times business and economics correspondent Steven Greenhouse, author of The Big Squeeze. | Multimedia Resource |
| Voices from Southern Alternatives Agricultural Cooperative | Listen to some of the women from the Southern Alternatives Agricultural Cooperative talk about their work! | Multimedia Resource |
| Rock Women Group | Learn more about UUSC's economic-justice partner in Kenya, the Rock Women Group. | Multimedia Resource |
| Just Journey to Kenya - Kenasvit | Learn about UUSC's 2009 JustJourney to Kenya! | Multimedia Resource |
| Forced Child Labor in the Global Cocoa Industry | Learn about forced child labor in the global cocoa industry. | Link |
| No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers | This 2009 report examines how informal workers, in particular home-based workers, street vendors, and waste pickers, are coping with the economic downturn. | Link |
| Effects of NAFTA on Workers in Mexico | This PowerPoint presentation, about the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Mexican workers, was created by Phyllis Mor | Multimedia Resource |
| Kenya JustJourney Podcast | On returning from UUSC's first-ever JustJourney to Kenya, Revs. Liz McMaster and Ronald A. Hersom, of the First Unitarian Albuquerque, share their ex | Multimedia Resource |
| In Support of the Employee Free Choice Act | Letter to the U.S. House and Senate supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| "Living Wage Days" Resource Guide | A comprehensive tool kit for living wage advocates. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| The Street Trader | The official newsletter of KENASVIT, a UUSC Economic Justice program partner | Publication |
| In Support of Significant and Sustained Public Investment as a Stimulus to the U.S. Economy | Policy/Shareholder Position | |
| Introduction to Economic Justice Program Partner Ceprodehl | The Center for the Promotion and Defense of Human and Labor Rights (CEPRODEHL) is a human and labor rights organization in the Mexican state of Yuca | Multimedia Resource |
| On Behalf of Signal International Guest Workers from India who are Working under Exploitative Conditions in the Gulf Coast | Policy/Shareholder Position | |
| In Concern about Exploitative Working Conditions at Signal International in Pascagoula, Miss. | Policy/Shareholder Position | |
| JustJourney to Mexico | Photo-essay about UUSC's 2008 JustJourney exploring economic justice in Mexico. | Multimedia Resource |
| In Support of Creating a Voluntary Certification Program to Discourage Child and Forced Labor | Sign on to two International Labor Rights Forum letters to Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) regarding a provision in the Farm Bill (proposed by Harkin) t | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| Video: Introduction to the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center | An video introduction to UUSC's Economic Justice Partner, the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center. | Multimedia Resource |
| Program Manager Johanna Chao Kreilick speaks on International Women's Day | To honor International Women's Day (IWD), a group of UUSC staff attended a breakfast at Simmons College, where Johanna Chao Kreilick, manager of UUSC' | Multimedia Resource |
| Gana contrato el 19 de Septiembre | Maquiladora workers in Tehuacán win representation by an independent union as reported in El Mundo de Tehuacán, México, on November 24, 2007. | Publication |
| Letter to the Governor of Puebla, Mexico, on Behalf of Vaqueros Navarra Factory Workers | On behalf of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, I am writing to urge your government to take immediate steps to ensure that the work | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| UUSC Statement on Immigration | UUSC's statement on U.S. Immigration Policy | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| Covenant Group: Wage Justice | Small ministry group discussion module about the fair wage movement and the broader struggle for economic justice. | Publication |
| Slideshow: August 2007 JustJourney to Chiapas, Mexico | Video from this JustJourney when participants met with human rights activists working to address issues of immigration and labor in Mexico. | Multimedia Resource |
| Slideshow: The work of KENASVIT | A narrated slideshow highlighting the work of UUSC's program partner KENASVIT. | Multimedia Resource |
| UUSC Economic Justice and Immigration | A human rights framework for understanding the issue of immigration in the United States. | Publication |
| Finger-Lickin' Bad | A Grist Magazine article about how poultry producers are ravaging the rural South. | Publication |
| Blood, Sweat and Fears: Workers' rights in U.S. meat and poultry plants | A report by Human Rights Watch detailing the dangerous working conditions in the U.S. meat processing industry. | Publication |
