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Feb 6, 2006 · The Catholic unions were reorganized at the end of WWI, stressing protection of members' rights and interests as workers. Anxious to unite their forces, they jointly formed the Canadian Catholic Confederation of Labour in 1921 with about 17 600 members.
Labor & the Catholic Church. On a Saturday afternoon in February, 1937, eleven men sat around the kitchen table at the Catholic Worker headquarters in New York, founded the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists and plotted a revolution. Don’t be alarmed. It was not a violent revolution they plotted, although some might still tell you so.
- John C. Cort
Sep 7, 2020 · kuzmaphoto/Shutterstock. By Kevin J. Jones. Washington D.C., Sep 7, 2020 / 03:49 am. At a time when labor unions are weak, Catholics still have a place in the labor movement, said a priest who...
An Ecumenical History of Support. Although the Catholic Church is historically the most recognizable and organized church advocate of U.S. labor unions, it's not alone. Protestant churches were union advocates during the Progressive era at the turn of the twentieth century.
Sep 3, 2023 · The right to form unions, strike, and so on are indeed recognized by the Catholic Church, but for too many people, especially the “social justice wimps” on the Left, there is an immoral ...
The first official Catholic labor unions in Canada were established in 1907. By 1921, there existed enough local unions across the provinces to necessitate the formation of a national conglomerate. Such was the birth of the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labour (Confédération des travailleurs catholiques du Canada) in Hull, Quebec. 1
Jun 27, 2018 · In the western Ukrainian lands that went to the Habsburgs in 1772, the Uniates benefited from grants of equality with the Latin Church and were renamed the Greek Catholic Church and reorganized in the metropolitan province of Galicia in 1808. In the seventeenth century the Armenian archbishop of Lviv also entered into union with Rome.
