{"id":905,"date":"2008-08-29T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/08\/labor-day-is-time-to-celebrate.php"},"modified":"2008-08-29T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T11:25:10","slug":"labor-day-is-time-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/08\/labor-day-is-time-to-celebrate","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Is Time to Celebrate Link Between Faith and Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Chris Herlinger<br \/>\nReligion News Service<\/strong><br \/>\nAmerican houses of worship should commemorate Labor Day weekend not as the last hurrah of the summer but as a time to celebrate the &#8220;sacred link between faith, work and justice,&#8221; according to a national social justice advocate.<br \/>\n&#8220;If a congregation was ever going to lift up labor issues, it&#8217;s Labor Day weekend,&#8221; said Kim Bobo, executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a Chicago-based organization.<br \/>\nBobo&#8217;s organization, which builds alliances between faith communities and the labor movement, is promoting &#8220;Labor in the Pulpits&#8221; services that focus on various themes of work and justice.<br \/>\nA major focus this year are the lives of low-income workers and the faith community&#8217;s support for their &#8220;struggles for living wages and family-sustaining benefits,&#8221; the network said. The project is also supported by the AFL-CIO.<br \/>\nLabor Day religious services &#8212; sometimes called &#8220;Labor Day Sundays&#8221; &#8212; were prevalent throughout the early and mid-20th century. But Bobo said the tradition began to fade during the 1950s, just as labor unions began to lose membership.<br \/>\nThe tradition was revived in the mid-1990s, and now thousands of congregations  &#8212; including Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist houses of worship &#8212; participate in Labor Day weekend-themed events.<br \/>\nOnly about one in 10 U.S. workers is now a member of a labor union, and Bobo acknowledged that the overall cultural shift away from unions has made it difficult for faith communities to embrace the labor movement.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 Religion News Service.  All rights reserved.  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