How I spent Labor Day
Labor Day this year, fell on September 5, 2011. This year it has meant many things, to me. First of all, as a Union Member, I give thanks that my union speaks for me. I would have no chance sitting across the table, from management and negotiating working conditions. I've been there alone and just don't have the political savvy to see their agenda. Stupidly, I believe everything management tells me. I just assume that they have my interests in mind. Besides, negotiating isn't something I do often. To me, it's just common sense to have people whose job is to represent me, represent me. They've trained to do just that. How could any worker oppose this idea? Those workers who are anti-union are just jealous that they don't have representatives working for them. Either they should start their own union to represent their ideas, or give back the benefits that unions have have gotten for all workers, negotiated in collective bargaining.
Yes, I know unions can be corrupt. Duh. Did you think they're governed divinely? Are all popes good people? Of course unions have their faults, but it is the only voice workers have. If we lived in the Garden of Eden, we'd have no need of unions. But we don't. I thank God for my union membership.
Labor Day also reminds me to send up a prayer for Boston's Labor Priest, Father Edward Boyle, s.j.. His Labor Guild is where AFSCME Local 1298 union reps were trained.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/people/staffPapers/kochan/kochan_fahey.pdf
Thank you, Lord for Rerum Novarum, Centisumus Annus, and the Catholic Labor Network.
Labor Day also marks the end of summer on the Cape. There are still some of the best beach
days left on the Cape. The crowds have gone, and you can practically have the entire beach to yourself. The water is warm. Sometimes warmer than the air.
And although, we might still spend some weekends down here, this weekend is the last weekend that my entire family is together. That's what these pictures depict.
More reason to thank God. Deo Gratias.
Labor Day this year, fell on September 5, 2011. This year it has meant many things, to me. First of all, as a Union Member, I give thanks that my union speaks for me. I would have no chance sitting across the table, from management and negotiating working conditions. I've been there alone and just don't have the political savvy to see their agenda. Stupidly, I believe everything management tells me. I just assume that they have my interests in mind. Besides, negotiating isn't something I do often. To me, it's just common sense to have people whose job is to represent me, represent me. They've trained to do just that. How could any worker oppose this idea? Those workers who are anti-union are just jealous that they don't have representatives working for them. Either they should start their own union to represent their ideas, or give back the benefits that unions have have gotten for all workers, negotiated in collective bargaining.
Yes, I know unions can be corrupt. Duh. Did you think they're governed divinely? Are all popes good people? Of course unions have their faults, but it is the only voice workers have. If we lived in the Garden of Eden, we'd have no need of unions. But we don't. I thank God for my union membership.
Labor Day also reminds me to send up a prayer for Boston's Labor Priest, Father Edward Boyle, s.j.. His Labor Guild is where AFSCME Local 1298 union reps were trained.
The Labor Guild was created in 1946 by Cardinal Cushing to educate
Catholic workers about their rights and responsibilities. Today, the Guild
continues to run a School of Industrial Relations and offers classes to workers in
labor law, collective bargaining, steward training, union governance,
parliamentary procedure, public speaking, organizing, and the philosophy of
unionism. Hundreds of students benefit each year from experts and practitioners
in labor, management, and arbitration who contribute their services. The Guild
also provides a neutral venue for collective bargaining, arbitration, and union
elections. But most importantly, over the years the Guild, under Father Boyle’s
leadership, has grown to become the moral voice for labor management
relations, providing opportunities for the area’s leading union and management
leaders to meet, build close personal relationships, and explore ways to work on
shared problems
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/people/staffPapers/kochan/kochan_fahey.pdf
Thank you, Lord for Rerum Novarum, Centisumus Annus, and the Catholic Labor Network.
days left on the Cape. The crowds have gone, and you can practically have the entire beach to yourself. The water is warm. Sometimes warmer than the air.
More reason to thank God. Deo Gratias.
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