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ONFEREN
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FROM: Archbishop
p Jerome E. Listecki,
L Preesident
DATE: February 16
6, 2011
Governments
G s, for reasonss of economiic utility, oft
ften limit the freedom or the negotiatting
caapacity of laabor unions. Hence tradiitional netwoorks of soliddarity have m more and moore
obbstacles to overcome.
o The
T repeated calls issuedd within the C Church's soccial doctrine,
beginning witth Rerum No ovarum [60], for the prom motion of w workers' associations thatt can
defend their rights
r must th
herefore be honored
h todday even morre than in thee past, as a
prrompt and faar-sighted reesponse to thhe urgent neeed for new fo forms of coopperation at thhe
in
nternational level, as welll as the locaal level. [#255]
It is especially in tim
mes of crisis that
t “new forms of coopperation” andd open comm munication
become essential.
e We
W request th hat lawmakerrs carefully cconsider the implicationns of this proposal
and evalu uate it in term
ms of its imppact on the common
c goood. We also appeal to evveryone –
lawmakeers, citizens, workers, and labor unio ons – to move beyond divvisive wordss and actionss and
work tog gether, so thaat Wisconsin n can recoverr in a humanne way from the current fiscal crisis.