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More Perfect Unions

THE NEED FOR NEW LABOR LAWS

Clayton Sinyai

In 1934, as a Senate committee debated a measure to protect the right of workers to form unions, the U.S. Catholic bishops weighed in on the debate. John Burke, CSP, speaking on behalf of the bishops’ Administrative Committee, addressed a letter to the senators: The worker’s right to form labor unions and to bargain collectively is as much his right as the right to particip (...)


 

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Clayton Sinyai is the political director of Laborers Local 11 in Alexandria, Virginia, and the author of Schools of Democracy (Cornell). He can be reached at csinyai@malaborers.org.

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