Leaders representing a large number of U.S. trade unions filed a complaint with the United Nations’ labor agency Wednesday, arguing that the country under President Trump has violated international labor standards during the coronavirus pandemic.

The complaint details numerous ways U.S. labor law and enforcement are failing workers, and spotlights their further weakening under Trump. It charges the United States with violating workers’ rights in terms not typically associated with well-off countries, at one point saying the bind many essential workers have been placed in during the pandemic — forced to risk infection or lose their jobs and potentially unemployment benefits — amounts to a system of forced labor.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/08/international-complaint-worker-protections/

The PDF of the unions full complaint is available at:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm&ogbl&pli=1#search/darcydutoit%40gmail.com/FMfcgxwKhqfpDwlZsWMdSvqMDTmQFCXz?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1