All posts tagged labor
I'm not always wearing my full habit...
We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re still going on. Why? Because the system works for us.
A former Apple executive speaking to the New York Times about working conditions at suppliers’ plants in China. (via officialssay)
Former Apple executive, who chooses to remain anonymous because of confidentiality agreements: This system does not work for anybody, including Apple. The short-term gains may be attractive, but you degrade and diminish all of humanity by your complicity in these abominable choices.
Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul.
(via bluntlyblue)
You don’t have to love unions, you don’t have to believe that their policy positions are always right, to recognize that they’re among the few influential players in our political system representing the interests of middle- and working-class Americans, as opposed to the wealthy. Indeed, if America has become more oligarchic and less democratic over the last 30 years — which it has — that’s to an important extent due to the decline of private-sector unions.
Paul Krugman (via drinkthe-koolaid)
Reblogged for truth. (via atomrobinson)
Amen.
(Source: The New York Times, via atomrobinson)
Labor is a commodity.
the Honorable David King, Representative from Iowa and ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security
Dear Mr. King:
When you say this, you are really saying that people are a commodity. I understand that in a macro-economic view, this is true. However, from the widest point of view — that would be God’s — the idea that people are a commodity is abhorrent, reprehensible, and profoundly sinful.
Each person is a child of God, uniquely and marvelously made — just as you are! — and infinitely and perfectly loved. These farm workers from Mexico you refer to as “illegals,” Jesus died for each and every one of them, just as he died for you. And I assure you that Jesus did not look down from the cross and see the mob of spectators as a commodity. No, he saw persons, brothers and sisters, beloved companions in the journey of humanity.
Persons are not a commodity. Persons have never been a commodity. I pray for your immortal soul.
In Christ’s love,
Undercover Nun
