This new Global Rights Index shows we are not making progress when it comes to respect for workers’ rights, but rather the reverse is true. These rights are increasingly degraded and even abandoned altogether. Too many countries pay lip service to the right to organize but do nothing more to protect it.\u00a0The problems workers face range from union busting, which has\u00a0become normalized, to violence and even murder of trade unionists. It\u2019s a global disgrace, and it shows that voluntary corporate social responsibility programmes and good intentions don’t add up. We need global rules.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n