Youth Labor Committee students from Dundee-Crown High School are holding the first activism fair on Friday the 20th of April. The members of the YLC are trying to promote messages of peace and solidarity. The Youth Labor Committee has invited almost fifty groups to participate with interests ranging from animal and environmental rights, worker/human rights and the occupy movement.

This event is being held in conjunction with the WBEZ Global Activism Fair being held at the University of Illinois/Chicago on the 28th. The YLC has been invited to the event and we are thrilled to gain such recognition.

Groups attending the activism fair will also have the opportunity to hold presentations, talks or workshops during the day. Our keynote speaker will be MIT Linguistic Professor Noam Chomsky.

Charles Kernaghan and members of the Youth Labor Committee are featured on WBEZ Worldview!

Click here for the full story and online broadcast.

US Students Against Lankan Rapist
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/?p=46600

Chicago-area high school students are protesting Sears’s purchase of clothing from a Jordanian factory where a supervisor from Sri Lanka has been an unpunished serial rapist of young female “guest workers,” also from Sri Lanka. Read the rest of this entry →

Please join us in the fight against Wal-Mart, Sears, Kohl’s, Hanes, Target and Macy’s and stand with us in solidarity for the workers at the Classic Factory in Jordan who suffer rape and sexual abuse in their workplace. Our friends at the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights are working around the clock to break this story…lets do everything we can to help! Read the rest of this entry →

The Youth Labor Committee has put together a welcome video for our brothers and sisters in The Child Labor and Rights Project (CLAR) in Turkey! We are so excited to continue working with each and everyone of you and are encouraged by all your dedication!
Check out the amazing work being done at:

http://clarproject.com/

In Solidarity!
YLC

On February 1st, 2011, the Daily Herald, a northwest Chicago suburban newspaper, published the following article highlighting the efforts of Mike Kelley, a member of the Youth Labor Committee. The Youth Labor Committee is emboldened by the coverage and is looking forward to continuing the discussion with Sears concerning their global compliance program.

You can read the article Here.

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Click Here to download our evidence packet concerning Sears’ Global Compliance

On January 20^th, the Youth Labor Committee had been planning on meeting with representatives from Sears Holdings Corporation in order to discuss Sears’ global compliance program together. This was as a direct response to the result of their last meeting, on December 10^th at Sears’ corporate headquarters. At this meeting, representatives of Sears had asked that the YLC examine their Global Compliance Program, as they believed that it would appropriately address the issues which the YLC had broached. The Youth Labor Committee followed this path of action, spending the weeks after the first meeting researching Sears’ Global Compliance Program and analyzing the issues within these standards.
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Youth Labor Committee is at it again, doing what they do best and asking for fair working standards from a huge corporation, Sears.
Friday, December 10th at 3:45, the YLC, the National Labor Committee, students and parents gathered to ask Sears to work with the Committee and proposed the idea of helping the corporation with their human rights standards so the workers can feed, clothe, and educate their families. The group picked Sears because it was the closest to the school and felt that “the company can unite with American students.”

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URGENT ACTION:

Friday Dec 10th, Sears’ Corporate Headquarters, 3:45 PM

Address:

3333 Beverly Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192

YLC Members are gathering this Friday, along with directors from The National Labor Committee and representatives from many prominent labor organizations from around Chicago to pressure Sears to support fair working standards worldwide.

Sears is a global leader in retail and this action will directly impact millions of workers around the world.  This Friday is Human Rights Day, please come help support our efforts and make this one to remember, one where the rights and lives of millions of impoverished workers can finally notice a marked increase in their standards of living.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION HERE

And check out the support from the Axis of Justice website!

http://axisofjustice.net/students-vs-sears/

Two of the speeches are as follows:

Sears Speech  by Emily Voyles

Sears Speech  by Michael Kelley

11-12-10

Members of the Youth Labor Committee and students from both Dundee-Crown High School and the Illinois Math/Science Academy spent Friday afternoon discussing labor issues with Professor Noam Chomsky.  Professor Chomksy is Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus of Lingiustics at MIT.  The conferences with Professor Chomsky, as well as many other leading intellectuals, are part of an ongoing lecture series held at Dundee-Crown High School by Social Studies Teacher and Youth Labor Committee founder Bruce Taylor.  The conference with Professor Chomsky, as well as a sampling of previous conferences with individuals such as Howard Zinn and Peter Singer, can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.findteachingjobs.com/conferences