9.15.2011

We're Number One! Or un-one. Whatever.

Undernews: U.S. has weakest labor protection of any developed nation

AFL-CIO - University of Missouri-St. Louis Associate Professor Kenneth Thomas reviewed numbers from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and found that in 21 categories, U.S. workers are more vulnerable than workers in any OECD members (rich industrialized democracies) or even the so-called growing BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China…to being fired unfairly, to not getting severance pay, to getting the least notice on mass layoffs or being fired, to being stuck on a mouse wheel of temporary positions.

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