The Dignity of Work and the Place of Labor Unions

All work must prioritize the dignity of the worker as a subjective moral agent and not as a mere instrument—as though he were nothing more than a component or machine. This is what Pope St. John Paul II calls the “priority of labor over capital” in his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens (no. 12). Failure to […]

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