In a brief paper, ed Marciniak, pre...

In a brief paper, ed Marciniak, president of the Institute of Urban Life, Loyola University, Chicago, give administrators of Catholic institutions eight simple guides for the proces of moving from percussion and disbelief when employees of the institution decide they want to engage in collective bargaining to recognition that a union can be a resource.

Marciniak patiently reminds administrators that Catholic social doctrines apply to Catholic institutions as employer as well as to other employer He draws about papal documents, bishops' statements, and the published commentaries of many meeting-house leaders, both clerical and lay, to allude to that labor-management relations should be characterized according to mutural respect rather than paternalism.

Putting to defeat the notion that Church teaching regarding the rights of workers to endeavor to gain collective bargaining gives unfavorable advantage to unions, the author goe onward to inform administrators that the desire of employee of religious institutions for collective bargaining will wax now diminish in the coming years. In closing, he approves that institutional executives consider labor-management relations without personal agitation.

This seasoned and objective presentation could be commended for its bibliography alone, on the same level if its message were not with equal reason clear and persuasive.

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