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The "Right" to Unions and Collective Bargining

First of all a number of founding documents of the European Union and the Canadian Constitution recognize both the right to establish unions and the right to collective bargaining. What other civilized nations think and do when they express moral values superior to our own, establishes the inferiority of our values. The United States' history regarding the civil rights of non-whites, underscores that just because we do not now see a right as a part of the law, does not make our action morally correct nor our morality superior. In terms of domestic law, Congress has sighed on to some of the international agreements regarding labor rights, and as such these have, all be it limited, legal standing. http://law.onecle.com/constitution/article-2/25-domestic-obligations-of-executive-agreements.html On 19 June 1934, the US Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing the President to join ILO. On 20 August 1934, the US government and took its seat at the ILO. A number of ratified tr