They work for God, but they say their workplace conditions are too often wretched, and so a group of United Church clergy in Ontario and B.C. have taken the first steps toward unionizing the 4,000 pastors in Canada's largest Protestant denomination.
Citing psychological and physical abuse, bad working conditions, sweatshop wages and a corporate church that responds to their problems inadequately, a group of 30 clergy in Ontario and a similar number on the West Coast have invited unions to step in and organize the church.
So much for "turning the other cheek" or "ask and it shall be given." I personally cannot wait to see who will cross the picket line or who the UC management will get to work as "scabs". I want the T-shirt. Who will write the protest songs? Think of the picket line chants!
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I'm just flabergasted by all this. You'd never think Pastors would need a union. What is the UC coming to, what is organized religion coming to for that matter? Theres a can of worms.
The violence on the picket lines when the scabs try to cross should be very photogenic. Could be a Pulitzer to be had there.
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