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Alex Hogan
Alex Hogan has worked as a professional labor communicator for nearly 20 years, and currently serves as speechwriter for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He is also active with the Catholic Labor Network.
Articles by Alex Hogan
Meredith Stiehm, president of Writers Guild of America West, and Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA, take part in a rally by striking writers outside Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles on May 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Activists are calling it Hot Labor Summer. Catholics should welcome it.
Alex Hogan
Catholic social teaching is clear on the best tool to promote a just wage: organized labor.
A BNSF locomotive heads south out of Oklahoma City on Sept. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Punitive time-off policies may result in the first national railroad strike in 30 years
Alex Hogan
A threatened strike by freight rail workers is not about wages but about the right to take time off for a doctor’s appointment or to care for a sick child. Catholic social teaching supports this right for all workers.
Chris Smalls, wearing baseball cap, celebrates with union members after getting the voting results to unionize workers at the Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., on April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
An Amazon site has finally unionized. This Catholic principle explains why the workers won.
Alex Hogan
The principle of subsidiarity helps explain why labor organizers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island were able to build trust and win support from the rank-and-file.