The Issue Of Worker 's Rights

Throughout the Twentieth Century, the evolution of workers’ rights in the workplace has drastically evolved. Through the utilization of constitutional freedoms, workers across the nation came together to support the goal of receiving fair treatment from employers when it came to wages, work conditions, and benefits. However, this wasn’t achieved without great sacrifice from the average man as standing up for their rights was a brave act that usually resulted in consequences.

•2015: $325 per adult and $162.50 per child (up to $975 for a family), or 2% of household income above the tax return filing threshold, whichever is greater

An increase of a couple of dollars per hour or more in the minimum wage could make huge improvements in the difficult existence of the working poor, perhaps allowing them to exit the debt treadmill and stand a better chance of eventually rising into a revitalized middle-class. Researchers at the White House Council of Economic Advisors found that an increase to $10.10 an hour would raise wages for 28 million Americans about nine million of those due to the ripple effect. “According to a 2015 report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a worker must earn at least $15.50 an hour to be able to afford to rent a modest one-bedroom apartment, and $19.35 for a two-bedroom unit.”

Transition: Because of inflation a full-time working parents with one child, earning $7.25 an hour cannot earn enough to be above the federal poverty threshold.

Minimum wage should be raised to help these workers to a better living conditions, but fifteen dollars maybe too excessive for the market to bear. One

Today, more than 28 million people, about a quarter of the workforce between the ages of 18 and 64, earn less than $9.04 an hour, which equals into a full-time salary of $18,800 a year (Conlin). There is an equally troubling yet more often overlooked problem among the nation's working poor-for some, the raises come in dimes

jobs”.(Patricia Smith #3).However, it can be clearly shown that if the minimum wages get raised

Employers initially resisted unions as they were seen as a ‘tool of worker power’, and some countries even banned the groups all together (Baoill 2011). Although these restraints have been lifted, restrictions and guidelines have been put in place by government bodies to govern union activity; and employees internationally have the right to form unions (Baoill 2011).

Reformers have been trying to start a movement for worker protection. They are trying to regulate hours and help health regulations for men, women, and children. It has been a hard process in which they have worked years to achieve. In order to achieve these laws, reformers must bring to light the health and safety issues that are in the work place.

• The family is living is living at the poverty level. The mother is working full-time but only making slightly more than minimum wage.

Organized labor has played a major part in the development of the safety movement. Sometimes management would think of organized labor use of safety issues as an advantage for better pay for the workers. On the positive side, the organized labor helped overturn the anti-labor laws relating to safety in the workplace (Goetsch, 2011). Through all the years of the past, safety concerns was nothing more than an expense that management and owners did not want to experience.

Workers in New York City are trying to raise their paycheck to $15 per hour. The workers message was they cannot survive on their paychecks.

* or individuals who earned at least $200,000, or $300,000 for a married couple, in the last 2 years, and expect to make at least the same amount in the current year.

In the most labor dependent industry on earth, workers have no voice. The supply chain is constantly on the rise, globalization of production is outsourced

As an example; let’s assume that a household yearly income is a $100.000; if they decide to apply for