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What To Do If Asked to Vote For the Diocesan Company Union February 5, 2008
WHAT TO DO I f you are a teacher, you are going to be asked to vote for a Company Union. It may be called an Employee Committee, or Employee Council, but don’t be fooled, this Company Union and those who agree to serve in it are the toadies of the Bishop of Scranton.IF ASKED TO SERVE ON A COUNCIL OR COMMITTEE, POLITELY DECLINE. IF ASKED TO VOTE FOR MEMBERS OF A COUNCIL OR COMMITTEE, PLACE “SDACT” ON YOUR BALLOT AND TURN THAT IN. STAND UP FOR THE RIGHTS OF TEACHERS AND BE COUNTED - DON’T BE A TOADY
CATHOLIC CHURCH RETURNS LABOR RELATIONS TO THE 1920s I n the 1920s anti-union employers developed a strategy to keep unions from organizing their plants and businesses. It was called the American Plan and it was designed to play upon the fears of the community that lived in the neighborhoods of the company plants. The American Plan encouraged community leaders to portray union “agitators” as outsiders and as communists in order to generate fear and to promote Company Unions. A Company Union is one that has no affiliationwith an independent national union and where the employer is able to control the election process,if there is one, and the agenda of the “union.” In reality the Company Union is subservient to the company bosses who created it.The Diocese of Scranton has returned the Company Union to the schools of the Diocese. Rather than have independent representation, The Bishop of Scranton has decided, in the best tradition of the Robber Barons of the 1920s and 30s, that his paternalistic control of the lay faculty in the Diocesan schools trumps the rights of teachers expressed in over 100 years of Catholic teachings. We can call this the Martino Plan. It is a Company Union dressed up in the rhetoric of cooperation and faith community while playing on the fears of parents and the Catholic Communityat large. Shame on you, Bishop Martino. Shame on your cynical view of those members of this faith community that make up the Scranton Diocese Association of Catholic Teachers.
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