A recent organizing effort at Loyola University New Orleans is part of a nationwide push by Sodexo workers — a number of them at Catholic colleges — to unionize and fight for higher wages and lower health care costs.
Michael Sean Winters: Organized labor and the Catholic Church have enjoyed a long and important relationship. As the AFL-CIO chooses Liz Shuler to lead its 11 million members, the alliance has never been more needed — both by the church and by the unions.
Distinctly Catholic: As they withdraw their states from federal unemployment benefits, the GOP governors are correct that the government should not provide a disincentive to work — but that does not exhaust the moral responsibility of government.
Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical on capital and labor is a foundational text of modern Catholic social teaching; it could be taught more often in seminaries or catechism classes, speakers at a May 12 event said.
In a move professors said took them by surprise, St. Leo University in Florida voted to derecognize its 44-year-old faculty union, after courts rolled back labor protections on Catholic campuses last year.
Labor Day "calls us to deepened solidarity with those who have been labeled 'essential workers' but too often treated as expendable when it comes to the profit margin," Bishop John Stowe said at a virtual Labor Day Mass.
In recent weeks, the courts rendered decisions in two cases involving First Amendment guarantees of the free exercise of religion. We agree with both decisions, but deplore one of the outcomes.
The Gospel of Sports: Paying college athletes is an issue that Catholics ought to consider with a Sports Illustrated in one hand and the last 120 years of papal writings on human labor in the other.
