"....a week ago the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop filed a brief with the Supreme Court that supports the right of public sector unions to operate with a closed shop.
Father Rip Fitz Winkle... “The bishops are backing labor unions?” he said. “They’ve been doing that
since the days of Good Pope Leo. Tell me something I don’t know.”
.....the bishops begin their brief with Good Pope Leo—Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), which put the Church solidly behind unions as essential to defending workers’ rights. And they go on to make clear that in backing organized labor, they have long opposed what’s known as “right-to-work” laws.
Those laws, which were allowed at the state level by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, let employees decline to join a union while working in a union shop.
What Janus v. AFSCME would do is make right-to-work a constitutional right—barring public unions everywhere in the country from requiring membership.
But I’ll tell you this: The tectonic plates are shifting at the Bishops Conference. And if Pope Francis lives long enough to appoint another few dozen bishops, they’re going to shift a lot more." RNS
Father Rip Fitz Winkle... “The bishops are backing labor unions?” he said. “They’ve been doing that
.....the bishops begin their brief with Good Pope Leo—Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), which put the Church solidly behind unions as essential to defending workers’ rights. And they go on to make clear that in backing organized labor, they have long opposed what’s known as “right-to-work” laws.
Those laws, which were allowed at the state level by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, let employees decline to join a union while working in a union shop.
What Janus v. AFSCME would do is make right-to-work a constitutional right—barring public unions everywhere in the country from requiring membership.
But I’ll tell you this: The tectonic plates are shifting at the Bishops Conference. And if Pope Francis lives long enough to appoint another few dozen bishops, they’re going to shift a lot more." RNS
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,
or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:17
"The trade unions will be one of the agencies that will bring upon this earth a time of trouble such as has not been since the world began."
Manuscript Releases, vol. 4, p. 88 E.G.W.
