New Report Cites Major Threats to Workers' Rights Across the Globe (Freedom House, 29 Aug 2010)

A Freedom House report released today found that the rights of working people and trade unions were under serious duress throughout much of the world, and that authoritarian regimes are using increasingly sophisticated methods of control. The report, The Global State of Workers' Rights: Free Labor in a Hostile World, found that one-third of the global population lived in societies in which workers' rights suffered a significant degree of repression.