Young people should learn that progress towards greater justice has occurred only when people have organized together and fought for it. Find lessons for teaching about labor organizing at the Zinn Education Project.
In this Labor Day edition, Vanderbilt Divinity School's Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice’s Interventions, provides a series of reflections on the assigned scripture readings based on the Revised Common Lectionary in the Christian tradition for September 1, 2024. The intention behind providing clergy and faith leaders with different readings of common passages, is to provide alternative lenses to scripture and to open up interpretative possibilities for how the Bible speaks to the reality of working people.
In this series, Wilson Dickinson, Ansley Quiros and Joerg Rieger all offer new readings on familiar texts.
For American Labor, the Past Isn’t Past
Organized labor is having a moment. In the last half-year alone, baristas at more than 200 Starbucks filed for union elections, software engineers at The New York Times formed the largest bargaining unit of tech workers in the country, and, despite pushback from the world’s biggest retailer, workers at a Staten Island “fulfillment center” voted to form the first Amazon union in the United States.
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