Rats! Laid Off Union Workers Protest General Theological Seminary
We all know ECUSA is a HUGE supporter of unions and takes a firm stand against those evil people who oppose anything progressive. They would never be the target of a protest that caused union workers to put up a huge rat in front of the building of the evil people who would lay off said union workers. Nope. Never. Well never except when it affects their bottom line. Just like those environmentalist who oppose windmills in THEIR backyard. The funniest part of the article below - a reference to the seminary’s slogan—Plan to choose life. That’s a riot coming from a group of people who think abortion is a blessing.
Workers who claim they were fired by the Episcopal Church’s oldest seminary after more than two decades of service have taken their protest to the streets — erecting a giant protest rat in front of the building.
The five maintenance workers say they lost their jobs at the General Theological Seminary late last month.
The workers, who are all members of the Service Employees Union 32BJ, had been with the seminary for decades, but said they were given letters on Thursday, July 27 notifying them that their jobs would end on Tuesday, July 31.
“That’s three business days for 25 years of service,” said Errol Morgan, 49, who started at the seminary in 1988 and said the firing means he will be unable to pay Catholic school tuition for his two 8-year-old daughters.
“This is a church — I thought they would have sympathy for human beings. Isn’t that what they’re all about?”
Maia Davis, a spokeswoman for 32BJ, said the union has lawyers looking into whether the seminary violated a city law giving building service workers 90 days of protection against layoffs if a building changes contractors.
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I did take my GTS diploma off the wall in my office - haven’t yet sent it back to them, which is what I was considering after their melodramatic awarding of a degree to David Booth Beers.
This article might be the nudge I need.
[1] Posted by Timothy Fountain on 8-21-2012 at 06:27 PM · [top]
Its all the fault of those gubby greedy capitalistic conservatives who are starving the seminaries and inflicting pain and suffering on the working class.
[2] Posted by Undergroundpewster on 8-21-2012 at 07:24 PM · [top]
Oops, I meant grubby, greedy conservatives.
[3] Posted by Undergroundpewster on 8-21-2012 at 07:25 PM · [top]
Mitt Romney will give them all cancer 7 years from now.
[4] Posted by Bill2 on 8-21-2012 at 07:46 PM · [top]
Not to worry! Those promises were made, long ago. They’re simply doing a new thing.
[5] Posted by SkyFox on 8-21-2012 at 08:34 PM · [top]
TEC clergy and bishops already had a lot to worry about in St. John Chrysostom’s warning about the paving and lamposts in Hell. Now they also need to worry that there might be a union road crew.
[6] Posted by tjmcmahon on 8-21-2012 at 08:37 PM · [top]
Actually, Jackie, Katherine Ragsdale is the president of another financially distressed seminary, EDS. However, I recall no protests from General Theological Seminary when the Executive Council voted to make our denomination a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
[7] Posted by Jill Woodliff on 8-22-2012 at 05:59 AM · [top]
No pictures yet of the seminary professors and students standing in solidarity with the workers?
No sit ins?
No folk songs?
[8] Posted by Undergroundpewster on 8-22-2012 at 08:18 AM · [top]
Pewster, those rat b@$****s at GTS planned this whole thing to happen when the students and faculty were on a field trip to Upper SC for some mystical thingy (musical bowls or something).
[9] Posted by Timothy Fountain on 8-22-2012 at 09:18 AM · [top]
#9, Ooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmm!
#1, time to write that check to Trinity and/or Nashotah, and a polite letter to GTS explaining why.
#8, I’m also surprised that there hasn’t been a reaction from faculty and students. Any reason to think there’s an atmosphere of intimidation there?
[10] Posted by Ralph on 8-22-2012 at 09:33 AM · [top]
Ralph - I haven’t given to GTS in aeons and I have contributed to Trinity and, more often, to Nashotah House.
I wonder about intimidation, too. Although my guess is that they’ve convinced themselves of some kind of “context” by which it is OK for them to do what they find evil when done by others.
[11] Posted by Timothy Fountain on 8-22-2012 at 10:14 AM · [top]
You know, if only the liberals were in control of this seminary, the conservatives would never have been allowed to get away with this…
Yours in Christ,
jacob
[12] Posted by Jacobsladder on 8-22-2012 at 10:08 PM · [top]
Notice the quote: “That’s three business days for 25 years of service,” said Errol Morgan, 49, “... I thought they would have sympathy for human beings. Isn’t that what they’re all about?”
In the view of many, employment is a means to benefit the worker, with the expectation of permanence. However, the reality is employment is only a benefit to the employer if it adds value. When the value no longer exists, the employee needs to seek new opportunities as the benefit derived to the employer is absent and can no longer lay the salary.
[13] Posted by iamaworm on 8-23-2012 at 11:10 AM · [top]
Maybe General believes a lot can happen in 3 days. It does in a story they tell once a year.
[14] Posted by maineiac on 8-25-2012 at 02:58 PM · [top]
What has happened in the past 4 wks? Any word about Maia Davis and the union?
[15] Posted by maineiac on 8-25-2012 at 03:03 PM · [top]
This report from GTS on the matter is out: http://news.gts.edu/2012/08/gts-president-offers-qa-on-protest-by-aramark-workers/
[16] Posted by Pressing On on 8-27-2012 at 06:51 PM · [top]
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