During a recent trip to Seattle, I took a tour of <a href="http://www.theochocolate.com/">Theo Chocolate</a>, the first and only organic and fair trade chocolate factory in the United Sta ...

Labor Day weekend is often a slow time for congregations. Members are attending family gatherings. Parents are getting children ready for school. Labor Day weekend is often a slow ...

Mary Kay Henry Health care for all is a moral imperative. In May, Sen. Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with an aggre ...

During this BBQ season we have to carefully consider what products are apart of our seasonal celebrations. During this BBQ season we have to carefully consider what products are a ...

Rose Marie Berger Alexis Vaughan “Jesus, take pity on me! ...

Jonathan Mendez In June, a predominantly African-American Christian church took the innovative step of hosting a day laborers’ hiring site ...

Richard W. Gillett "Making Work Work," by Tamara Draut, Paul Sherry, Gordon Bonnyman, Joan Fitzgerald, and Jill Suzanne Shook (F ...

Celeste Kennel-Shank Beginning with churches near the coalfields, more than 750 local and national religious leaders have put forth “A Cal ...

Sue Brooks “Taking Back Our Kids” flagrantly overlooks the fact that African-American women have always worked outside the home—before, during, and after the 1950s. Further, it ...

Angela M. Skinner I was disturbed by the article “Taking Back Our Kids.” The authors seem to think the best way to combat the consumer culture in which we live, and the problems i ...

Kim Bobo What's happening in the religion-and-labor movement? Monsignor George Higgins, the great " ...

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler "It’s heartbreaking to see how quickly this hap ...

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) turn ...

Josh Greene How temp agencies use welfare-to-work laws to rack up big profits. September 2000, 2100 Lakeside, ...

Rose Marie Berger Susannah Hunter The United Farm Workers union has called off its 16-y ...

Jo Ann Heydron The consequences of globalization. "Today the worker is not only the engine of production ...

Jim Rice The Broetjes had a crazy idea—to treat their workers like people. When Ralph Broetje was 15, he had ...

Free Time/Free People Adapted from the Free Time/Free People Campaign statement. For many of us, the hardest w ...

Emily Dossett Why the living wage campaign is working. Strolling down the Santa Monica pier on a sunny afterno ...

Ruth Rosenbaum Many corporations in the global marketplace have severed their social contract with workers and local communities. ...

Ruth Rosenbaum Participants in conversations about corporate responsibility and wages often use the same words to mean entirely different ...

Chuck Collins A movement for a fair economy. The economic boom has been a bust for people who work for wages. ...

Pat McDonnell Twair Labor activists and people of faith rally around 'core values.' "I feel lik ...

Andrew Schleicher Continuing their two-year vigil, locked-out Detroit newspaper workers brought their protests in May to the Washington, D ...

Kim Bobo Fifteen ways to strengthen your congregation's justice ministry with workers. Across the nation ...

Julie Polter This morning's Washington Post said it is a "workers' market." A booming U.S. ...

Bill Wylie-Kellermann Why the church and the labor movement belong together. Biblically, theologically, ethi ...

Jim Wallis AFL-CIO president John J. Sweeney talks about his priorities. John Sweeney was born into a Catholic ...

Kristin Brennan Seminarians are learning about another aspect of church members' lives. "You can go ...

Perry Bush For a century and a half, workers and church people have organized together. "Religion," ...

Peter Laarman Why New York churches are resisting workfare. The most vulnerable and least protected workers of ...

Jane Slaughter Only the rank and file can bring real and lasting change. Many Americans' hopes for social ...

Patrick O'Neill Baldemar Velasquez settles in for the long haul on behalf of cucumber pickers in the South. ...

Jane Samuels Even church institutions can lose sight of human needs. The American church and organized labor a ...

Murray MacAdam Support grows for a shorter work week. Time is a priceless commodity these days, as people try ...

Rose Marie Berger Despite anti-union violence, the United Farm Workers persevere in organizing strawberry pickers. ...

Paul Graham Clergy in the Twin Cities are making economic justice a priority At recent nursing-home-worker ral ...

Kristin Brennan Suggestions and questions to encourage faithful engagement with labor issues. This special iss ...

Bob Hulteen Since its founding in 1994, the People of Faith Network has organized targeted campaigns to educate religious people about the ...

Jane Slaughter The Detroit-based monthly newsletter Labor Notes has emerged as the networking center for the labor reform movement. ...

Nate Solloway Looking for information on strikes, boycott lists, religious statements on worker issues, stories of labor movement heroes, ...

Kristin Brennan Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), 548 S. Spring St., Suite 630, Los Angeles, CA 90013; (213) 486-9 ...

Pat McDonnell Twair From City Council to Rodeo Drive: campaigning for a living wage in Los Angeles. Say " ...

Julie Polter Labor activism as an expression of faith? Labor activism as an expression of faith? This is an un ...

Margaret Hoven David Earle Anderson The songs of working people. ...

Julie Polter Churches stand with those who labor. Pat Buchanan spouts friend-of-labor rhetoric. Other politic ...