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By Doug Cunningham

If you’re a truly devout Christian or Jew your faith guides you to support labor unions and the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform that would make it easier for workers to form unions. Reverend Jim Wallis of Sojourner Magazine.

[Wallis]: “The right to organize is a moral right. And workers need that, and the context has been very unfair. Intimidation, obstacles, prevention of democracy in the workplace has been a real problem. This bill is trying to correct that imbalance.”

Dr. Joseph Fahey is a Catholic theologian at Manhattan College.

[Fahey]: “I think and I think many of us Catholic scholars believe that the Employee Free Choice Act is firmly rooted in Catholic social teaching.”

Pennsylvania Rabbi Mordechai Liebling says ever since Temple bread makers organized for better pay more than two thousand years ago Jewish tradition has upheld the moral right of workers to organize.

[Liebling]: “We have supported in Judaism the right to organize literally for two millennia.”