Category: Workers’ rights

Broad effort to pass bill supporting pregnant workers focuses on Senate

by bcadmin | Feb 13, 2022 | Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, Archbishop Paul Coakley, Bishop David Konderla, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Pregnancy, pro-life, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Workers' rights | 0 |

Amid all the political sniping in Congress, one bill has gained strong bipartisan support and is poised to become law.

Pandemic is no excuse for neglecting job safety, injustice, pope says

by bcadmin | Jan 31, 2022 | Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Workers' rights | 0 |

The pandemic should not be used as an excuse for doing nothing about improving job safety and repairing injustice, Pope Francis said.

Ensuring dignity of workers means guaranteeing their safety, pope says

by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Workers' rights | 0 |

Companies, especially those in the construction sector, must guarantee safety in the workplace to protect the rights and dignity of their workers, Pope Francis said.

To understand Catholicism, you need to get Italy

by bcadmin | Dec 27, 2021 | Christmas Eve Mass, family, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Seminaries, Turin, Workers' rights | 0 |

While all local churches in the universal communion of faith may be equal, some, clearly, are more equal than others, and Italy is arguably the most equal of all.

Illinois success story shows strength of CCHD grant funding

by bcadmin | Sep 19, 2021 | Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic News Service, Chicago, Church in the US, News, Workers' rights | 0 |

Helping workers win their rights and achieve dignity in the workplace is just one of the many activities funded by national grants from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops’ domestic anti-poverty program.

Hidden costs: When for-profit chains buy Catholic hospitals

by bcadmin | Sep 12, 2021 | Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, labor movement, News, Workers' rights | 0 |

The Catholic Labor Network’s annual “Gaudium et Spes” report, issued each year in time for Labor Day, painstakingly notes each unionized Catholic workplace by state and diocese, along with what unions represent workers there.

U.S. bishops’ Labor Day statement calls for economy that works for all

by bcadmin | Sep 4, 2021 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Labor Day, News, USCCB, Workers' rights | 0 |

The “present ills of our economy” invite Catholics to reflect on ways to propose new and creative responses to vital human needs in a post-pandemic world, said the U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day statement.

Construction workers killed on job in past year remembered in special Mass

by bcadmin | May 2, 2021 | Archdiocese of Washington, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Washington D.C., Workers' rights | 0 |

Eighteen construction workers from the Washington, D.C., region who lost their lives on the job during the past year were memorialized April 28 in the first observance in the Archdiocese of Washington of International Workers’ Memorial Day.

Biden order raising federal contractor minimum wage welcomed

by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, labor movement, Minimum wage, News, President Joe Biden, Workers' rights | 0 |

A Catholic labor advocate welcomed President Joe Biden’s executive order to raise the minimum wage paid by federal contractors to $15 an hour.

For these working stiffs, ambivalence rather than amore from the Pope

by bcadmin | Apr 18, 2021 | Alitalia, COVID restrictions, COVID-19 pandemic, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Populism, Workers' rights, World Meeting of Popular Movements | 0 |

When workers take to the streets to protest government measures that leave them unable to do their jobs, and thus impoverished and alone, under ordinary circumstances one would expect Pope Francis to be the cheerleader-in-chief.

Dubai parish steps up to help foreign workers stranded in pandemic

by bcadmin | Dec 20, 2020 | Capuchins, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, immigrants and refugees, migrant labor, News, Persian Gulf, United Arab Emirates, Workers' rights | 0 |

The coronavirus pandemic has hit thousands of foreign workers hard in the glitzy Gulf emirate of Dubai, leaving them jobless and starving. But one of the largest Catholic congregations in the world, found in Dubai, has stepped up as “Good Samaritans” ministering to the needy, and now it hopes to bless even more during this Christmas season.

Report highlights role of immigrants as essential workers in COVID fight

by bcadmin | May 2, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Immigrants, Immigration, migrants and refugees, News, Workers' rights | 0 |

On the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, the Center for Migration Studies of New York released a new report highlighting the role of 19.8 million immigrant laborers who work in “essential critical infrastructure” in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic.