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Article: `The Labor Priest': Hope in the union movement.(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 3, 1999
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The casual cruelties of the new economy defy common sense and common decency." So believes Msgr. George Higgins, who for 45 years at the U.S. Catholic Conference, was the bishops' conscience on just wage and labor issues.
"In too many ways, our economy is sending the message that working people and the work they do are being demeaned, not dignified," Higgins has repeatedly declared. "When profitable companies downsize, dedicated employees are told their years of conscientious service don't count for much."
They do with Higgins, who is 83 and has replacement hips that have slowed but not ended his peripatetic crusading for U.S. workers -- blue collar and ...