The Progressive Organization for Workplace and Employee Rights (POWER), is a trade union of highly skilled professional organizers throughout the Social Justice Movement.

POWER also offers the only Department of Labor, Employment Training Administration Certified Apprenticeship Program for Union Organizers, Political Organizers and Community Organizers.

Through our “Organizing To Win” Program, our Partners are winning, establishing self-sufficient organizing programs, significantly slowing or stopping their declining membership numbers and growing once again.

This report finds a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in the 2000s relative to the last half of the 1990s. It uses published data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to update an index of the probability that a pro-union worker will be fired in the course of a union election campaign.

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An undercover investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Zone Libre” program found children 10 to 13 years of age sewing blue “I love my Wal-Mart” shirts in several Bangladesh factories. The children were paid less than ten cents an hour and forced to work long hours in dimly lit and dirty conditions. The children also sewed t-shirts carrying Wal-Mart’s “Simply Basic” private label.

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