CLERGY LENDS LABOR A HELPING HAND, CITES ETHICAL ISSUES.(NEWS)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | August 24, 1996 | Copyright

Byline: Steven Greenhouse The New York Times

More than at any other time in decades, religious leaders are making common cause with trade unions, lending their moral authority to denounce sweatshops, back a higher minimum wage and help organize janitors and poultry workers.

The clergy has not lined up with labor to such an extent since the heyday of Cesar Chavez, the charismatic farm workers leader, in the 1970s and perhaps the Depression, union and religious leaders say.

Many in the clergy say they have rallied to labor's banner because the newly ...

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