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Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ... by samatman on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:02PM (#23148974)
Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines the right to work.

I'm not interested in casting Elon Musk as some sort of heroic figure, and if it turns out he has coerced his workers or endangered them in practice, not just theoretically, he should pay for that.

But the freedom to work is absolutely a human rights issue.

Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ... by joe_the_user on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:09PM (#23149847)
So, this quoting of Article 23 seems to considerably distort the intention of the article:

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

What is described is something like the right to be considered for work if one is qualified. Maybe to the provision of work. But saying that this article guarantees a factory owner the right to restart that factory when they feel they'll be providing work along with making a profit, does not ring true.

Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ... by DagAgren on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:51AM (#23152232)
In practice, meaning, let's let him kill a few of them before we jump to conclusions?