{"id":24495,"date":"2011-02-11T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_roman_catholics_spar_with_federal_officials_over_unions\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:00:30","slug":"rns_roman_catholics_spar_with_federal_officials_over_unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24495","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Roman Catholics Spar with Federal Officials over Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small Catholic college in Riverdale, N.Y., last month got some news that sent shivers across religious higher education: part-time faculty have a right to form a union on campus.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t the worst of it. The National Labor Relations Board also isn&#8217;t convinced that the Catholic school is actually Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>According to Elbert Tellem, the NLRB&#8217;s acting regional director, Manhattan College can&#8217;t prohibit adjunct faculty from unionizing because the school&#8217;s core purpose isn&#8217;t religious enough to trigger a labor law exemption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2011\/02\/catholics-spar-with-federal-of.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small Catholic college in Riverdale, N.Y., last month got some news that sent shivers across religious higher education: part-time faculty have a right to form a union on campus. But that wasn&#8217;t the worst of it. The National Labor<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24495\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,149,111,597,114,154,108,364,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-education","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}