Clayton Sinyai

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

In his social encyclical Caritas in Veritate Pope Benedict XVI observed The repeated calls issued within the Church s social doctrine beginning with Rerum Novarum 1891 for the promotion of workers associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honoured today even more than in th

Many Catholics have been baffled a particular aspect of the contraception mandate proposed by the U S Department of Health and Human Services nbsp the definition of a religious employer The rule granted an exemption to an institution that ldquo 1 has the inculcation of religious values as its

nbsp American Catholics most studies suggest give significantly less to charity than our Protestant and for that matter Mormon nbsp counterparts If their 2010 tax returns are any guide it seems this nbsp holds true in the subset of Americans running for president as well nbsp Protestant Ba

The state of Indiana has just enacted a government regulation on business that business seems to love ndash lsquo right to work rsquo nbsp A lsquo Right to Work rsquo law forbids a business and a labor organization from signing a contract that requires all employees to join the union as a co

January 17 2002 marks the fiftieth anniversary of President John F Kennedy rsquo s executive order granting federal government employees the right to organize Sort of The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 or Wagner Act granted many categories of workers the right to organize and bargain colle

nbsp In one of the more striking election results Tuesday Ohioans voted by a surprising 61-39 majority to reject SB5 legislation that would have virtually eliminated public employee union representation in their state nbsp It may be recalled that back in the spring ndash alongside Governor