labor

While the current assault on unions seems driven mostly by the billionaire Koch brothers and corporate-funded groups, religious right leaders and activists have spent decades creating fertile soil for anti-union campaigns through the promotion of biblical capitalism.

At this moment the embattled US labor movement urgently needs strong community-based allies and much greater moral legitimation, yet broad-based strategic and moral support from the religious side has been slow to materialize.

Wisconsin groups take a stand against union-busting and drastic cutbacks in social services.

And the violent bear it away.

Wisconsin energizes Dems’ base.

Big Government is the sacred enemy that animates the Tea Party uniting it in opposition to death panels, socialists, gun-control advocates, unions, Obamacare, deficits, and so on…

The events in Wisconsin seem to follow the Reconstructionist ideals.

What has faith to say about the conflict between Scott Walker and state workers’ unions?

How long is it going to take for it to sink in with religious leaders that it will soon be time to choose sides?

A new book of Dr. King’s speeches to labor arrives just as union bashing is enjoying a resurgence.