Voices
Clayton Sinyai is a trade union activist and the author of Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement (Cornell, 2006). He is a member of the Catholic Labor Network, the American affiliate of the World Movement of Christian Workers. He can be reached at clayton@catholiclabor.org.
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Georgetown 39 s Kalmanovitz Center has performed an extensive review of the union campaign among adjunct faculty there The report covers the entire process from the first discussions among the instructors about their conditions to the ratification of a first contract The authors found that the u
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Service Employees International Union Local 500 which represents adjunct faculty at Georgetown University reports that Trinity Washington University adjuncts have now chosen union representation 74 voting yes 54 voting no They join a wave of non-tenured university and college instructors acros
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Housekeepers and childcare workers were excluded from 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
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DETERMINED TO PURSUE CO-DETERMINATION In an update on a storyline central to Thomas Geoghegan rsquo s recent book Only One Thing Can Save Us see America review here the United Auto Workers union has presented a draft proposal for a German-style works council for Volkswagen rsquo s Chattanooga pl
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Employers responsible for a fatal accident paid a median penalty of only $5,050.
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Bishops concerned over cuts to programs that serve the poor and vulnerable.
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Popes since Leo XIII have supported workers' associations.
Catholic social teaching on the rights of workers to organize is clear and consistent. “The repeated calls issued within the church’s social doctrine, beginning with ‘Rerum Novarum,’ for the promotion of workers’ associations that can defend their rights,” writes
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Board made considerable effort to vindicate just demands of both universities and adjuncts