Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and protection against unemployment.to equal pay for equal work.to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for him/herself and his/her family an existence worthy of human dignity.to form and join trade unions. ARTICLE 23, Universal Declaration of Human Rights If these are really our rights, as agreed by everyone 50 years ago, what is going on? No other right is more universally ignored than the right to work, with unemployment affecting enormous numbers of people in every country. Governments in all countries are acting to prevent this basic right for their people, and instead seek to keep a pool of unemployed as a threat to those in work. This has effectively weakened the worker movement. In the developed countries, business has convinced people that they are consumers rather than workers, that trade unions are 'out of date', and that they should concentrate on chiseling out their individual career path from the fragments of work available. In developing countries, governments have told people they are lucky to have an exhausting, dangerous, repetitive job that pays them $3 or less a day and their protests at exploitation by multinational corporations are met with state-sanctioned violence. In Burma, people are forced into labour by the military, leaving the workers with no time, energy or money to earn enough food to live on. In Nepal, women are trafficked as sex workers. In Pakistan children are sold into bonded labour. The unemployment rate in Indonesia stands at 17 per cent. There is increasing evidence of the Governments, businesses and work systems failing to ensure the people their right to work, or to work that treats them as humans. The challenge this May Day for the workers' movement, religious groups, human rights activists, political groups and all people who care about humanity is to work together to ensure that the fundamental, universal right to dignified work is realised in our time.
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