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Qatar, China, Egypt, India and Nigeria "worst countries to work in" - with U.S. not far behind

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"The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has published a report that ranks countries according to how well they protect the rights of workers. The Global Rights Index gives each country in the world a score out of five, with zero designating a country in which labor rights are sacrosanct and five a country with no protections at all."
While the report does not directly measure the worst places to work in the world, it does use 97 indicators to measure where's worker's rights are the worst and the best. And without rights, how can working conditions remain favorable in the long run?
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)