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2018-02-19T13:43:43-06:00

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Union Reform

Last updated on: February 19, 2018 at 1:43 pm By William Droel

Subsidiarity is a Catholic social principle that celebrates the multiplicity of small institutions that buffer a person from the mega-forces of big business and big government; institutions like the family, the parish, an ethnic club or the precinct. Brian Dijkema, writing in National Affairs (Winter/18), correctly and refreshingly includes labor unions among those mediating institutions that help families navigate in our wider society and global economy. I say “refreshingly” because in recent times several social policy thinkers who acknowledge the... Read more

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2018-01-20T13:27:41-06:00

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Workplace Behavior

Last updated on: January 20, 2018 at 1:27 pm By William Droel

In response to recent disclosures of predatory behavior in several workplaces, human resource departments around the country are redistributing employee handbooks. Likewise, managers are everywhere huddling with employees to review proper deportment. Rule books and company policies are important. They represent an advance over the arbitrary decisions of a boss, even a benevolent boss. Rule books provide a basis for equal treatment. They are often written after some employee input, either through a personnel committee or a union and... Read more

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2018-01-04T10:48:32-06:00

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Genuine Change

Last updated on: January 4, 2018 at 10:48 am By William Droel

Will the buds of social improvement flower? There are promising signs. People are speaking out for respectful behavior in workplaces. Others are adamant about equal treatment under the law. Some desire better attention to mental health and addiction; still others are sensitive to food and product safety. To turn these and other initial bursts of interest into meaningful social change means avoiding pseudo-change; those activities that feel like social change but only approximate genuine politics. Discussion groups, for example, are... Read more

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2017-12-06T11:26:42-06:00

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Advent, Part III

Last updated on: December 6, 2017 at 11:26 am By William Droel

Every preacher has a sermon ready for this weekend or next in a folder labeled “Keep Christ in Christmas.” The theme is such a cliché that it is better to leave the folder in a file cabinet, away from the pulpit. Ordinary lay people know how to sufficiently navigate December’s commercialism. And who says that Christ is not in the office parties, the shopping for gifts, the decorating, the baking and all the rest? For those who falter, there’s a... Read more

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2017-11-19T14:42:34-06:00

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Advent, Part II

Last updated on: November 19, 2017 at 2:42 pm By William Droel

Contemporaries Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Charles Dickens (1812-1870) were concerned about the social question: Why in an industrial economy that promises upward mobility is there so much misery? By the mid-1800s prosperity was arriving for “factory and mill and transportation interests,” writes Les Standiford in his intriguing biography of Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas (Crown, 2008). Suddenly, “a growing number of managerial workers were beginning to enjoy the relative ease of a middle class. But most... Read more

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2017-11-13T16:48:11-06:00

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Christmas So Soon?

Last updated on: November 13, 2017 at 4:48 pm By William Droel

The grocery store was more congested than usual this morning because Christmas has taken over two entire aisles—miniature lights, extension cords, wreaths, decorative boxes, greeting cards and wrapping paper. Plus there are several gift displays at the front and back of several other aisles—trays of chestnuts/hazelnuts/pecans and holiday sausage plus winter ale, which I bought for Thanksgiving and which I’ll get more of later. My regular grocery cashier, who is also a floor manager, mentioned that she spent her first... Read more

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2017-10-31T12:37:10-06:00

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Health Care

Last updated on: October 31, 2017 at 12:37 pm By William Droel

Larry Keogh, a fellow teacher at our community college, began each semester by telling his students: “Life is not fair.” He used various techniques and examples to make this point. To master his course (social science) our students needed to ponder this maxim, Keogh believed. They likewise needed it to navigate their careers and their personal lives. Atul Gawande is a surgeon in Boston and author of best-selling Being Mortal (Picador, 2014). He recently interviewed a couple in his Ohio... Read more

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2017-10-24T13:44:52-06:00

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Shop Talk

Last updated on: October 24, 2017 at 1:44 pm By William Droel

Lousy writing is intentional, insists George Orwell (1903-1950). Shoddy writers may not be aware of their bad intentions. But our writing “becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish,” he continues. And “the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” I was a teacher at a community college for nearly 33 years. I tried to help students be better writers by presenting Orwell’s virtues and vices of writing. I would then ask students... Read more

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2017-10-03T13:19:13-06:00

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World Series

Last updated on: October 3, 2017 at 1:19 pm By William Droel

Back in March 2017 I picked the Dodgers in our usually friendly betting pool. I have admired the team, dating from the era that Roger Kahn describes in The Boys of Summer (Harper Collins, 1971). I wasn’t around to experience the debut of Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) in April 1947. In time, however, I followed Robinson and his teammates. (Full disclosure: the Dodgers were never my absolute favorite team, nor are they now.) 42, Brian Helgeland’s inspiring 2013 movie about Robinson... Read more

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2017-09-13T14:54:05-06:00

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Theology of Work

Last updated on: September 13, 2017 at 2:54 pm By William Droel

Death is the penalty we pay for Eve and Adam’s disobedience. How do we know? Because that is what our religion teacher said. Also, it is mentioned now and then in sermons. It is, however, fake news. Take a look at Genesis 3:4. Who explains things to Eve? It is the Prince of Lies who links mortality with Eden’s special fruit tree. In Genesis 2:18 God names a relationship between the fruit tree and death, but God never promises immortality... Read more

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