Workers’ rights

Dubai parish steps up to help foreign workers stranded in pandemic
- Dec 20, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has hit thousands of foreign workers hard in the glitzy Gulf emirate of Dubai, leaving them jobless and starving. But one of the largest Catholic congregations in the world, found in Dubai, has stepped up as “Good Samaritans” ministering to the needy, and now it hopes to bless even more during this Christmas season.

By Dale Gavlak
Report shows more unionized employees at Catholic workplaces
- Sep 4, 2020
he 2020 edition of the annual “Gaudium et Spes Labor Report” issued by the Catholic Labor Network has found more than 600 Catholic institutions with unionized workforces.

By Mark Pattison
Report highlights role of immigrants as essential workers in COVID fight
- May 2, 2020
On the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, the Center for Migration Studies of New York released a new report highlighting the role of 19.8 million immigrant laborers who work in “essential critical infrastructure” in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic.

By Rhina Guidos

Labor gains are hard-fought, hard-won, say workers at Georgetown forum
- Jan 25, 2020
The gains made by some of the Washington area’s lowest-paid workers require much effort but are necessary in one of the country’s least affordable regions, two worker activists said during a Jan. 22 forum at Georgetown University.

By Mark Pattison
Century-old ‘Bishops’ Program’ highlights Labor Day statement
- Sep 1, 2019
The 1919 “Bishops’ Program for Social Reconstruction” was showcased in this year’s Labor Day statement to demonstrate how so many of the issues the bishops touched upon a century ago in the wake of World War I’s end still resonate in improving the conditions of workers today.

By Mark Pattison
New policies needed to protect workers, says EU bishops’ commission
- Nov 8, 2018
Politicians must act to assist workers as technology continues to transform jobs across Europe, said a committee of the European Union bishops’ commission.

By Anne Condodina