"Labor In The Pulpits" Will Be In Over 1,000 Churches Labor Day Weekend

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11885

By Doug Cunningham

More than a thousand religious congregations nationwide will participate in Labor In The Pulpits this Labor Day weekend.

It’s a joint project of the AFL-CIO and Interfaith Worker Justice.
All the major world religions teach dignity and respect for workers and for the poor. Roz Pelles is Director of the AFL-CIO’s Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department. She says Labor In The Pulpits is about all workers.

: “It’s mainly not about union members, but it’s mainly about people who work every day, but cannot afford health care or don’t have it available to them or cannot get justice on the job. It gives congregations a chance to hear about this.”

Pelles says Labor In The Pulpits strengthens the bonds between labor and the faith community.

: “It is really proven to be a way to really further the rights of workers and to give people an opportunity in congregations around the country to get involved in this struggle.”

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1. bring back the labor priests who helped start the union movement

a lot of priests worked with Saul Alinsky