Catholic Labor Network Gathering

Submitted by dcjwj on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 7:37pm.
6 Feb 2010 - 8:00am

9th Annual
Catholic Labor Network Gathering

Saturday, Feb. 6th
8am - 3pm
Hyatt Regency Hotel

*Pre-registration required*
Register online at: http://www.catholiclabor.org/C-L%20Gath/2010%20Gathering%20Files/C-L_Gat...

The Catholic Labor Network’s 2010 Gathering will focus on Labor and Catholic Health Care institutions. Theologians, scholars, clergy, trade union activists, and Catholic health care leaders will participate in panels on the experience of union organizing and bargaining in Catholic hospitals, the USCCB document “A Fair and Just Workplace: Principles and Practices for Catholic Health Care,” and Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical “Caritas in Veritate.”

Confirmed speakers and panelists are:

John Carr, Executive Director, Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development (USCCB)

Paul Booth, Executive Assistant to the President
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO

Rick Surber, Illinois Organizing Team
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO

Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., Senior Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center

Professor James T. Fisher, Professor of Theology
Fordham University, Author of On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, & the Soul of the Port of New York, A new book on Fr. John Corridan, the ILA, and the New York/New Jersey waterfront.