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.
In All Things
This week marks the 90th anniversary of the March on Rome In late October of 1922 Benito Mussolini rsquo s Blackshirts mobilized across Italy to march on the capital and demand power By the time they arrived on October 29 the Italian government had caved to Fascist demands in order to avoid a vi
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One of the most interesting stories of the year in labor relations at Catholic institutions has been the movement of adjunct faculty to organize in unions Last month Pittsburgh rsquo s Duquesne University adjunct faculty voted 50 to 9 in favor of forming a union affiliated with the United Steelwork
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The latest BLS unemployment figures indicate that nearly 10 of post-9 11 veterans 25 and over are unemployed compared to 7 6 of civilians in that age group In researching an America story on this phenomenon The Next Battle one thing that struck me was the extent to which employment prospects f
Veterans are fighting for jobs on the homefront.
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The Labor Day Statement of the USCCB has appeared and offers important thoughts for Christians navigating the challenges of the Great Recession Writing in his capacity as Chair of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton reminds us that over
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In what has become a continuing unhappy subplot of the dispute over the contraceptive mandate a third Catholic university has now asked the National Labor Relations Board for an exemption from the Wagner Act on the grounds of its religious identity Adjunct faculty at Pittsburgh rsquo s Duquesne Un
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For well over a century May 1st has been celebrated around worldwide as labor rsquo s holiday In 1955 Pius XII established May 1st as the Feast of St Joseph the Worker ldquo The Gospel specifies the kind of work Joseph did in order to support his family he was a carpenter rdquo explained John
FaithIn All Things
Today's first reading is a brief but stunning indication of one way the early disciples were transformed by the experience of the risen Christ.
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A few weeks ago the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO stated ldquo We commit to ensuring that women have the right to quality health care including equal access to contraception and have the ability to exercise that right regardless of where they work rdquo Is America rsquo s labor movement pic