Soon after Georgetown rsquo s adjunct faculty and administration modeled collaborative labor-management relations for the world in their recent contract negotiations faculty at another Catholic campus have opted for union representation Adjuncts at St Michael 39 s College in Vermont nbsp have v

Is the decline of stable, blue-collar jobs related to falling marriage rates?

Two years of organizing and bargaining at Georgetown University came to a successful conclusion October 28 when adjunct instructors there ratified a proposed contract reached in September See also Kevin Clarke rsquo s Oct 10 post Adjunct instructors across the nation have been hard-pressed by ch

Growing movement helps formerly incarcerated gain employment

Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami Chair of the U S C C B Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development has issued this year rsquo s Labor Day Statement nbsp on behalf of the bishops 39 conference As always the statement is a powerful call to live out our faith and gives us ldquo the c

The speaker at the Falls Church Virginia Memorial Day observance began with the usual acknowledgements ldquo Do we have any World War II veterans among us today rdquo A few elderly men stood and received the grateful applause of the audience ldquo Do we have any here who have served in Iraq o

Today our nation and workers around the world mark Workers’ Memorial Day, pausing to remember those who have died on the job.

In mid-February a group of Chattanooga workers voted in what conservative commentator George Will called ldquo the most important election of 2014 rdquo They were workers in the Volkswagen plant choosing whether or not to form a union Will was not exaggerating about the vote rsquo s importance

In December Seattle University joined the list of Catholic colleges and universities fighting to prevent their adjunct faculty from forming a union Provost Isiaah sic Crawford addressed a letter to the adjuncts explaining that the university although opposed to their union efforts considered th

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling on Congress to extend emergency unemployment benefits for more than one million job seekers who lost this critical lifeline as 2013 drew to a close and asking American Catholics to exercise faithful citizenship by urging their elected representatives