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style=\"color: #000000;\">Labor unions \u2014 and their political power \u2014 often generate fierce opinions in our politically-charged society. But Catholic teaching holds that well-run unions are a key expression of human dignity and a vital way to assure that workers participate in a thriving economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/petitions\/tell-patina-at-disney-springs-justice-for-julie?source=direct_link&amp;\">Here&#8217;s an example<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">of why: A young woman is sexually harassed at work, reports it through appropriate channels, remains under harasser&#8217;s authority for months, and eventually gets fired. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The key source for understanding Catholic teaching on the priority of labor is St. Pope John Paul II\u2019s encyclical<\/span> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-%20%20ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091981_laborem-exercens.html\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Laborem exercens: On the Priority of Labor<\/span><\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHuman work is a key, probably the essential key, to the whole social question, if we try to see that question really from the point of view of [humanity\u2019s] good. And if the solution \u2014 or rather the gradual solution \u2014 of the social question, which keeps coming up and becomes ever more complex, must be sought in the direction of \u2018making life more human\u2019, then the key, namely human work, acquires fundamental and decisive importance.\u201d (#3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe activity of union organizations opens up many possibilities in this respect, including their efforts to instruct and educate the workers and to foster their self-education. It is always to be hoped that, thanks to the work of their unions, workers will not only have more, but above all be more: in other words, that they will realize their humanity more fully in every respect.\u201d (#20)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIn this consists [union\u2019s] social power: the power to build a community. In the final analysis, both those who work and those who manage the means of production or who own them must in some way be united in this community. In the light of this fundamental structure of all work \u2014 in the light of the fact that, in the final analysis, labor and capital are indispensable components of the process of production in any social system \u2014 it is clear that, even if it is because of their work needs that people unite to secure their rights, their union remains a constructive factor of social order and solidarity, and it is impossible to ignore it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In his encyclical letter<\/span> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pope Francis elaborates further to encompass previously unorganized workers. Francis draws quotations from his meetings with grassroots movements around the world:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIn some closed and monochrome economic approaches\u2026there seems to be no place for popular movements that unite the unemployed, temporary and informal workers and many others who do not easily find a place in existing structures. Yet those movements manage various forms of popular economy and of community production. What is needed is a model of social, political and economic participation \u2018that can include popular movements and invigorate local, national and international governing structures with that torrent of moral energy that springs from including the excluded in the building of a common destiny,\u2019 while also ensuring that \u2018these experiences of solidarity which grow up from below, from the subsoil of the planet \u2014 can come together, be more coordinated, keep on meeting one another.\u2019 This, however, must happen in a way that will not betray their distinctive way of acting as \u2018sowers of change, promoters of a process involving millions of actions, great and small, creatively intertwined like words in a poem.\u2019 In that sense, such movements are \u2018social poets\u2019 that, in their own way, work, propose, promote and liberate. They help make possible an integral human\u2026They may be troublesome, and certain \u2018theorists\u2019 may find it hard to classify them, yet we must find the courage to acknowledge that, without them, \u2018democracy atrophies, turns into a mere word, a formality; it loses its representative character and becomes disembodied, since it leaves out the people in their daily struggle for dignity, in the building of their future.\u201d [#169]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These writings summarize important facets of current Catholic teaching. But the world is indeed complex, and much remains to be thought about deeply and articulated civilly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Society must continue to discern the best role for unions and how they relate to corporations, along with the ways that our economy both alleviates poverty <em>and<\/em>\u00a0exacerbates it, frees people from want\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>violates their full dignity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How can we first understand, and then implement, the right mix of free markets and worker representation that leads to a fair economy for all?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[210,26,36,209],"class_list":["post-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-insights","tag-business","tag-catholic-church","tag-iacs","tag-labor-unions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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