It’s hard to think of a church, as a workplace. Yet for clergy and others who work in churches, there is both the higher religious mission, and the down-to-earth employer-employee relationship, with the added complication that sometimes people can feel more isolated and vulnerable in trying to deal with workplace issues within a church.
Rev. Robin Wardlaw
Earlier this month, a pan-Canadian meeting via phone, computer and in person was held at the Glen Rhodes United Church of Canada in Toronto, to inaugurate Unifaith, a union-supported ‘community chapter’ of Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor.
A ‘community chapter’ is not formally a union, it’s more like an association of faith employees collaborating to help each other, and an interim step before full unionization
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda spoke to the founding president of Unifaith, Rev. Robin Wardlaw, the minister at Glen Rhodes.
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Unifaith website – unifaith.ca
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