Religious Leaders Raise Moral and Ethical Concerns About Comcast’s Treatment of Workers
More than 100 religious leaders from across the country responded to cable workers' complaints about the company's lack of respect for workers' right to organize and to be able to fairly bargain a union. Here is an excerpt of a letter to sent to Comcast:
"From a moral and ethical perspective, as religious leaders, we are concerned that Comcast's employment practices do not responsibly address your employees' moral and legal right to freedom of association."
Earlier this year (Aug. 2005), seven religious leaders shared similar concerns about Comcast's anti-worker policies at the company's annual shareholders' meeting. Here are excerpts:
"We do not consider ourselves an 'interest' group. The issue that we raise speaks to the moral and human rights of workers to freely associate in the workplace. From a moral and ethical perspective, we are not representing an 'interest' but a 'moral' imperative.
"Our goal is to open a dialogue on certain Comcast employment practices that may be morally and ethically questionable, though legal, under federal labor law."
