Today's feast of St. Joseph the Worker is a good opportunity to pause and ask ourselves if we are affording work and workers the dignity with which God views work and those who work.
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Workers have not always been treated with dignity and, in many instances and places, they still are not so treated. Unions did not arise because workers had nothing better to do with their time. They arose because workers were treated like disposable machinery, useful only insofar as they increased the company's bottom line.
In this article posted in National Catholic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters S.J. gives us food for thought appropriate to today's feast. Read for yourself
Today's feast is a moment to reflect on the dignity of workers
https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/todays-feast-moment-reflect-dignity-workers
