2024--Revisiting Religion in the Struggle for Workplace Justice
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Dominating the news about the intersection of religion and Worklaw are stories focused on conservative Christian claims of exemptions from a variety of laws designed, mostly, to provide minimum standards to protect vulnerable workers. Often lost in these narratives are perspectives from other religious traditions, even other Christian traditions, on economic and workplace justice, focused on protecting the vulnerable. Over 130 years ago, at the height of the Gilded Age, Pope Leo XIII delivered the first papal encyclical devoted to economic issues and vulnerable workers, Rerum Novarum. In the midst of what has been called a Second Gilded Age, a deeper examination of religious perspectives on workplace justice is needed to support contemporary movements for workplace and broader economic justice.
Schedule
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. // Introduction and Welcome Marcia McCormick, Professor; Director, William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. // Keynote by Rev. Dr. Teresa Danieley The statewide Champions Organizer at Missouri Jobs with Justice and a proud member of the United Media Guild, TNG-CWA Local 36047, Dr. Danieley has been ordained for over 20 years. She earned a BA from Yale University, an MPP from the University of Chicago, an MDiv from the General Theological Seminary and a DMin from Eden Theological Seminary. Dr. Danieley and her husband, Jonathan, are raising three children in the City of St. Louis; all three children attend St. Louis Public Schools.
10:00 – 11:45 // Panel 1: History and evolution
Janine Giordano Drake What Rerum Novarum Did and Did Not Do for the American Labor Movement: American Christianity and Labor Movements, 1891-1935
Dallan Flake The Curious Treatment of Religious Accommodations by Courts and Legislatures over the Life of Title VII
Rhona Lyons Judaism, Justice, and the Labor Movement
Brother Ken Homan, S.J. Jesuits, Labor, Law: A Bit of History, A Bit of Theology
11: 45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. // Lunch
1:00 – 2:40 p.m. // Panel 2: Theology, moral questions, and worker justice
Stefan McDaniel Two Themes in Catholic Moral Theology on Relational Aspects of Work and Workers
Michael Duff The Statistical Value of a Life: From Skin in the Game to Vision Zero
Alvin Velazquez Faith as Voice for Moral Content to Unions’ Claims for Workplace Justice and a Source of Political Morality to the Apolitical Economy
Erin Simmons Enacting Unionized Labor in Catholic Educational Ministry: What it means for Employees, for the Church, and for the Next Generation.
2:40 – 2:50 p.m. // Break
2:50 – 4:15 p.m. // Panel 3: Religion as inspiration for worker justice
Chaumtoli Huq Muslim Workers, Faith, and Organizing
César Rosado Marzàn Dignity in Alt Labor
Rev. Darryl G. Gray Advocacy and the Progressive National Baptist Convention
4:15 p.m. // Closing Remarks
Webinar Date
3-1-2024
Keywords
Revisiting Religion, Religion, Struggle, Workplace Justice, Workplace, Justice
Disciplines
Law
Recommended Citation
Danieley, Rev. Dr. Teresa; Drake, Janine Giordano; Duff, Michael; Flake, Dallan; Gray, Rev. Darryl G.; Homan, Brother Ken S.J.; Huq, Chaumtoli; Lyons, Rhona; Rosado Marzán, César F.; McDaniel, Stefan; Simmons, Erin; and Velazquez, Alvin, "2024--Revisiting Religion in the Struggle for Workplace Justice" (2024). Law Journal Symposia: William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law. 3.
https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj_wefel_symposia/3