Support Pashinski’s proposal to help Catholic school teachers

The following letter to the editor appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice, June 13, 2008:

Support Pashinski’s proposal to help Catholic school teachers

Editor:

We would like to publicly thank Representative Eddie Day Pashinski for sponsoring the bill that will amend the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act to include employees of religiously-affiliated schools.

After over a combined 60 years of teaching in the Catholic school system and belonging to a union for over 20 years, we feel this legislation is long overdue.

It is hard to believe in the year 2008 there are workers who still do not have the same rights as every other worker in America. Our arguments are obviously constitutional rights of freedom of assembly and free association, rights upon which unionization is based but more importantly a justice issue.

We would hope that all citizens would recognize this as an injustice and visit, call, and write their legislators to see this bill become law.Thank you again Representative Pashinski for all you are doing to help correct this injustice.

Les and Eileen Kempinski
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