Labor Day: Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento

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Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, “Charity in Truth,” calls on people of all nations and faiths to recognize the great need for solidarity amid the challenges of globalization, Bishop Jaime Soto told a diverse group of religious and labor leaders Aug. 25 in Sacramento.

“Many of the issues that have been spoken about by the church with regard to labor, inequality and the ability of the market to be able to respond to the needs of people have been changed by the increasing global reality that we live in today,” he said. “The global economy is here – whether or not one is in favor of or against globalization – and we’re dealing with that in a significant way in the economic crisis we face in our country.”

The bishop urge religious and labor leaders to be at the forefront of current legislative efforts on the federal level to reform health care and to revise current immigration policies to improve human rights for immigrants.

“Organized labor has an important role to play in these two issues and to look for how it is that the worker can gain just compensation for their labor,” he said.
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