February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
McCormack, the first woman president of Irish Congress of Trade Unions, was one of the four original signatories of the principles, which were launched in 1984.
Human rights campaigners agree that the principles succeeded in transforming Britain’s fair employment laws in the North of Ireland, opening up job opportunities for an entire generation of young nationalists.
Hosted by New York City Council, courtesy of Speaker Christine Quinn, the City Hall event will chart the journey of the MacBride Principles from their birth as a code of employment behavior for U.S. companies to their ratification as federal law by President Clinton in 1998.
Today, the principles continue to underpin the employment policies of all U.S. companies in Northern Ireland, including such behemoths as Coca-Cola, 3M and WalMart (parent company of Asda).
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