Article 23: Right to Work and Join a Union
FULL TEXT
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and [their] family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of [their] interests.
Student TEXT
You have the right to work, to freely choose your work, and to receive a wage or a salary that allows you to live and support your family. If different types of people do the same work, such as a man and a woman, they should get the same pay. All people who work have the right to join a union to protect their interests.
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Further Learning
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document in the history of human rights and international relations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Amnesty International
Overview of the UDHR by Amnesty International, an international NGO supporting human rights
30 Articles on the 30 Articles – Article 23: Right to Work
Explanatory articles on each right contained in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Explainer Video – Article 23: Right to Work
Short videos about each of the UDHR’s 30 articles by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience. Each video includes testimony from a witness to atrocities by European totalitarian regimes.