Church Teaching on Union Rights

If you would like to know the official position of the Church on the rights of Catholic school teachers to unionize, visit "The Catholic Labor Page." There you can find encyclicals, etc.


PRIOR TO JANUARY 24, 2008, AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE UNION BUSTING TACTICS, HERE'S WHAT THE SCRANTON DIOCESE ITSELF HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE UNION RIGHTS OF ITS TEACHERS.

Introduction to current Scranton Diocesan School Policy #417:

"Catholic social teaching strongly supports the rights of lay teachers to organize and to bargain collectively. A corollary of the right of lay teachers to organize is the right which they possess to determine the agency or organization which is to represent them in the collective bargaining process. Catholic lay teachers also have the right to free elections, full negotiations, mediation, conciliation and similar services under the auspices of a neutral body."

3)From the Scranton Diocesan Newspaper, The Catholic Light, June 7, 2007 (See page

FROM THE WEB PAGE OF THE SCRANTON DIOCESE

United States Catholic Conference of Bishops' 2007 Labor Day Statement


United States Catholic Conference Bishops Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, Nov. 14, 2007

Catholic School Teachers Unions, by Msgr. George Higgins

United States Catholic Conference, Subcommittee on Teacher Organizations September 15, 1977