---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:01 PM Subject: Article - Truthout : "Assault on Collective Bargaining Illegal, Says International Labor Rights Group" To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Assault on Collective Bargaining Illegal, Says International Labor Rights Group Sunday 13 March 2011 by: Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis <http://www.truth-out.org/assault-collective-bargaining-illegal-says-international-labor-rights-group68423> http://www.truth-out.org/assault-collective-bargaining-illegal-says-internat... http://www.nlg-laboremploy-comm.org/index.php?pr=HOME * The opening paragraph of the ICLR statement reads: As workers in the thousands and hundreds of thousands in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio and around the country demonstrate to protect the right of public sector workers to collective bargaining, the political battle has overshadowed any reference to the legal rights to collective bargaining. The political battle to prevent the loss of collective bargaining is reinforced by the fact that stripping any collective bargaining rights is blatantly illegal. Courts and agencies around the world have uniformly held the right of collective bargaining in the public sector is an essential element of the right of Freedom of Association, which is a fundamental right under both International law and the United States Constitution. * -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens