Description: United Church ministers and other church workers are forming a union to seek better job security and combat bullying and overwork.

Source: The Toronto Star

Date: 01/21/2014

Link: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/21/united_church_of_canada_clergy_form_their_own_union.html

Related links:

• The United Church of Canada
• Unifaith
• Unifor
• CBC story
• Windsor Star story

Questions for discussion:

• What is “precarious work”?
• Can you think of some other examples?
• What is this union’s relationship to Unifor?
• Does it surprise you that clergy would form a union?
• What challenges can you think of that would face a non-traditional union such as this?