Jesus=Union Buster? Coll. claims Union would disrupt Christian mission

[HereSince1628]

Disclosure: I was granted tenure at this school in 1993 and resigned it a year later.

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Original URL: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/jan05/294022.asp

Unions, religion called a bad mix: Carroll says teachers shouldn't organize; professor calls claim 'strange'
By SCOTT WILLIAMS
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Waukesha - In an effort to fend off a teacher unionization movement, Carroll College is arguing that federal labor laws would infringe on freedom of religion at the Presbyterian-founded college.

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...Carroll will take its case to NLRB headquarters in Washington, D.C.
College administrators hope to convince the government that sanctioning a teachers union - and requiring the college to abide by federal labor laws - would interfere with a religious mission at Carroll that is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
"Obliging Carroll College to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with a trade union substantially burdens, without a counter compelling justification, the firm's free exercise of religion,..."

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After hearing three days of testimony in November, the NLRB's acting regional director in Minneapolis, Ronald Sharp, issued a ruling last week in the union's favor, dismissing the college's argument about religious freedom. Sharp cited a precedent in which union organization was allowed at another college despite the fact that the college property was owned by a church and half of the trustees were required to be church members - neither of which is true at Carroll.

[joefree1]

1. But, but, Jesus was a Capitalist

Wasn't he? (sarcasm off)


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[Union Thug]

2. More anti-labor nonsense.

No union because of religious freedom, what a joke.

As a sidenote, there was a great book called Discovering America as it is, by Valdas Anelauskas, a lithuanian and former soviet dissident. Valdas came to this country (was brought to this country) under the care of the American right wing who attempted to exploit him and quickly cast him off when they were done using him for their own purposes. Valdas writes a scathing attack against the hypocrisy in this country, and talks extensively about what it means to be 'free'.

Part of this involves a discussion of economy and religion. I agree with him when he says that all other freedoms are meaningless when economic justice is denied. When your family cannot get adequate healthcare, the 'freedom of religion' becomes irrelevent. Who do you want to visit, a doctor or a preacher? I'll take the doctor.

So in this case, where a bunch of whining christian suits are actively campaigning against economic freedom, their bs about religious expression should be shoved right down their arrogant throats.