Principles honoring workers' basic human rights can be found in the tenants of all major religions.

The Hebrew Scripture:
The work of justice will be peace.  (Isaiah 32:17)

The Talmud:
He who withholds an employee’s wages is as though he deprived him of his life.  (Baba Metzia 111a)

The Christian Bible Scripture:
Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out.  (James 5:4)

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH):
When you hire, compensate your workers and treat them fairly.

From the Buddha’s teaching on metta, loving kindness
May all beings be happy.
May they be joyous and live in safety.

Members of the IWJ-CO Leadership Team march at DU against Sodexo's unfair labor practices, April, 2010.