SOS for Lay Faculty Association, Archdiocese of New York
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CSWJ issues Georgetown Statement. On June 1, 2011 Catholic Scholars met at Georgetown and issued "The Core of Roman Catholic Teaching on Workers' Rights."
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Program for MEETING AT GEORGETOWN, May 31 and June 1
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CALL TO MEETING AT GEORGETOWN, May 31 and June 1
WE RESPOND TO WISCONSIN!!! ».

CSWJ issues Statement of Support for Labor Unions.
Catholic Scholars is deeply alarmed at the attacks on unions and the right to collective bargaining in Wisconsin and in all too many places around the country. Help support workers and unions by distributing our statement far and wide.
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Manhattan College Adjunct Professors Organize--win NLRB Decision.
Adjuncts at Manhattan College, Bronx, N.Y. filed cards in 2010 to the NLRB to petition an election to choose whether New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) will represent them for collective bargaining purposes. On January 20, 2011 Region 2 of the NLRB decided in the adjuncts favor. Continued »

You are invited to sign CSWJ's Statement of Support for Service Workers at Catholic Colleges and Universities.
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CSWJ issues Statement of Support for Adjunct Professors at Manhattan College. The adjuncts have selected New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) as their bargaining agent and recently filed cards with the NLRB to request a secret ballot election.
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US Bishops Issue 2010 Labor Day Statement
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CSWJ Symposium at Harvard Law School : Final Program
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SIGN-ON to "Union Busting is a Mortal Sin."
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Join CSWJ in NYC at 5 p.m. on March 25!
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JOIN US! Registration information for the March 22-23, 2010 Conference.
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Breaking News: Election for union at SRMH
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CSWJ and Villanova Call for Papers and Reports
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Letter from Professor Holland about union 'bosses.'
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CSWJ SIGN-ON STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE EFCA
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Breaking News: CSWJ Ad Supporting EFCA in NCR and America
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Steering Committee Member Appointed to Historic Post
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Fr. Pat Sullivan's inspiring homily (3.19.2011) at St. John's Conference on the "The Theology of Work Dignity of Labor"

by Fr. Patrick Sullivan, CSC

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Poland in 1980 and Wisconsin in 2011: History Rhymes

by Gerald J. Beyer

This article appeared on politicsdaily.com on February 24, 2011

Mentioning the campaign against unions by a Republican governor in 2011 in the same breath as the anti-labor repression by Communist authorities in Poland in 1980 is sure to raise eyebrows. Yet as Mark Twain supposedly said, if history doesn't repeat itself, it sometimes rhymes.

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Labor Unions and the Church

by Joseph J. Fahey

This article appeared in The Catholic Worker, May, 2010 pages 1, 7

In 1949 Cardinal Francis Spellman used New York archdiocesan seminarians to break a strike by gravediggers at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, N.Y. Spellman alleged that the workers had come under the influence of Communist agitators and that he was "proud" to "be a strikebreaker."

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Fr. Ray Decker Reflects on the Santa Rosa Hospital Campaign

by Fr. Ray Decker

The Experiences Of Raymond Decker With The Labor Union Organizing Efforst at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Santa Rosa, California – 2004-2010

On October 6, 2004 an employee representing a number of other employees together with two organizers from SEIU-UHW (Service Employees International Union – Union of Hospital Workers) contacted me to ask if I could help with the organizing efforts of the employees of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital to form a union.

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CALL TO CONFERENCE!
CSWJ is co-sponsor of an exciting conference on "The Theology of Work and the Dignity of Workers" to be held March 18 and 19 at St. John's University School of Law (Queens, NY) March 18 and 19, 2011. Please join us and the most distinguished list of speakers and panelists! Registration fee is waived for CSWJ members!
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• SOS for Lay Faculty Association, Archdiocese of New York
• Georgetown Statement
• SOS for Labor Unions
• SOS for Service Workers at Catholic Colleges and Universities
• SOS for Adjunct Professors at Manhattan College
• SOS in Support of the EFCA