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FEATURE: Labor Day Living Wage Resources
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Labor Day and Labor Day Sunday (September 4-5) are fast approaching. Labor Day is an opportunity for us to lift up the struggles of working people and call for greater justice in the workplace.
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In honor of Labor Day 2005, we urge you to celebrate this national holiday with ACTION that will help workers!
Congress will return from its annual August recess September 6. While much of their attention will focus on budget and appropriations issues, there is important legislation pending to help workers, and it will not pass without constituent pressure. We hope the information on this page will be helpful to you as we all, “Strive for justice and peace among all people and respect the dignity of every human being.” BCP
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| Worship and Study Resources |
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Labor Day provides a unique opportunity for both the religious community and the union movement to rediscover their common bonds: social justice, equality, the dignity and respect for all persons, economic justice, and fair treatment in the workplace. IWJ calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.  More |
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The National Farm Worker Ministry has prepared a seven-session Sunday School curriculum for adults and high school students entitled "Blessing the Hands: Farm Worker Issues in a Biblical Context." Users of the curriculum learn about and reflect on farm worker issues through the lens of faith, and explore ways to become part of the farm worker justice movement. More |
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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is the Nation's oldest and largest grassroots organization of low and moderate income people with over 150,000 member families organized into 800 neighborhood chapters in 65 cities across the country. What you will find here is a brief history of the national living wage movement, background materials such as ordinance summaries and comparisons, drafting tips, research summaries, talking points, and links to other living wage-related sites. More |
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In the last three decades, economic security has declined for most workers as good jobs (jobs with family supporting wages and benefits) have disappeared. Most families now must work harder and longer to avoid falling further behind, and as a result families are struggling to balance work, raise their children and care for their aging parents. Others among us, because of age or disability, may not be able to work but deserve to be treated with dignity and to have basic needs met.
To be true to our shared values, and to reverse the course we are traveling today, we need to rededicate ourselves to advancing a collective agenda to ensure real access to opportunity and to fulfill our hopes and expectations about work, family, our communities and our future. More |
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Founded in 1987, JwJ's mission is to improve working people's standard of living, fight for job security, and protect workers' right to organize. JwJ's core belief is that in order to be successful, workers' rights struggles have to be part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice. To that end, JwJ has created a network of local coalitions that connect labor, faith-based, community, and student organizations to work together on workplace and community social justice campaigns. More |
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Among the key principles shared by all faiths are the importance of paying workers fairly for their labor and the right of workers to perform their responsibilities with dignity. Interfaith Worker Justice is a network of people of faith that calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize the religious community in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers. More |
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The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy. More |
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By Walter J. Burghardt, S.J.
(Paulist Press 1998, New York / Mahwah, NJ)
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UFE is a national, independent, nonpartisan, 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality. More |
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Labor Day Living Wage Resources
Source: Prepared by the Office of Government Relations
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