Door-to-Door Sales: Is This Job Right for You? NCL and DSEF partnering to help potential teen workers and consumers distinguish legit door-to-door sales opportunities from traveling sales crews. Learn more.

Child Labor Coalition News: CARE Act Would Protect 500,000 Child Farmworkers; Child Labor Advocates Call for Long Overdue Updates to Young Worker Protections

Summer's Here! NCL's 2007 Five Worst Teen Jobs

Twenty Years of Congressional Inaction: Magazine Sales Crews

What do consumers think of Corporate Social Responsibility? NCL helped commission a survey in 2006 to find out. The results are fascinating. Learn more here.

NCL Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Apparel Industry Partnership. Learn more here.

The High Cost of Cheap Goods: Measuring the Impact of Big Box Retailing on Workers, Consumers, and Communities. A National Consumers League Forum held in June. Download the new summary here. (.pdf)

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NCL's Five Worst Teen Jobs for 2006. Teens and parents, beware these jobs. What made this year's list? Find out here.

Fair Labor Association's Reports. Provides the public with an impartial, in-depth view into what 25 diverse companies have done to improve the working conditions in the factories where they produce around the world. Click here to check out the reports.

America's Nurse Staffing Crisis. Many of America’s hospitals are dangerously short staffed. Nurses are often forced to work overtime and asked to deliver care they are not qualified to provide. In almost all cases of understaffing, nurses are assigned more patients than they can safely handle—which can mean missed or incorrect medication, delays in care, patient accidents or worse.

Advocacy

New! Comments to DOL on its notice of proposed procedural guidelines for the development and maintenance of the list of goods from countries produced by child labor or forced labor pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005  (10.31.2007)

 

Speech: "Health, Education, and Labor and the Convention on the Rights of the Child" Symposium (02.28.1998)

Speech: NCL and the U.S. Department of Labor Unveil Child Labor Stamp (01.26.1998)

Speech: Child Labor Here and Abroad (01.21.1998)

Comment: Made in USA Policy (08.11.1997)

Research

NCL Survey: American Public Says Young Farmworkers Deserve Equal Protection (08.30.2005)

Survey results

Questionnaire

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Nurse Staffing Shortage (05.06.2004)

Consumer Perspectives: The Effect of Current Nurse Staffing Levels on Patient Care

Apparel Industry Code of Conduct: A Consumer Perspective on Social Responsibility (10.06.1997)

Related NCL Press Releases

One Sweatshop Is Too Many: NCL Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the White House Apparel Industry Partnership (11.14.2006)

Group Warns Teen Workers this First Day of Summer: Avoid These 5 Worst Jobs (06.22.2006)

Survey: American Consumers’ Definition of the Socially Responsible Company Runs Counter to Established Beliefs (05.31.2006)

CLC News: Advocacy Group Releases New Information from States Showing Ongoing Child Labor Enforcement Woes (02.15.2006)

NCL Survey: American Public Says Young Farmworkers Deserve Equal Protection (08.30.2005)

Teen Workers: Avoid 2005’s Five Worst Jobs this Summer (06.02.2005)

Teen Workers: Beware These Five Worst Summer ’04 Jobs (06.21.2004)

Patients Report Too Few Nurses Mean Compromised Care (05.06.2004)

Miami Trafficking Incident Brings National Problem to Light, Says Consumer Group (03.30.2004)

Youth Delegates Chosen to Represent U.S. at Children’s World Congress on Child Labor (03.01.2004)

Consumer Group Voices Outrage at Congressional Weakening of Protections for Working Minors (02.03.2004)