Carol Pier is the senior labor rights and trade researcher for Human Rights Watch, where she conducts fact-finding missions to document labor rights violations, reports on those findings, and engages in advocacy on workers’ rights and trade issues in the United States and abroad. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Notre Dame.

Blog Entries by Carol Pier

Wal-Mart is a Poster Child For What is Wrong with Labor Laws

Posted May 16, 2007 | 05:13 PM (EST)


Human Rights Watch researchers don't normally spend their days listening to forty-something Americans talk about their former bosses, but that's what I was doing in March 2005, investigating how Wal-Mart violates its workers' right to form and join trade unions. So, on a warm spring day in Kingman, Arizona,...

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