Apparently, they want better protection “from workplace violence and harassment”; things like little old ladies hitting them with their handbags.
From here:
A group of United Church ministers in Ontario has joined Canada’s largest private-sector union.
Clergy have launched Unifaith, a community chapter of Unifor, which has more than 300,000 members.
“A large number of colleagues are aware of issues of workplace bullying, isolation and desolation for those serving in their vocation. This has been an ongoing concern for us for many years now,” said Rev. Jim Evans, Unifaith’s interim president. “We’ve looked at various ways to address what could happen in terms of advocacy and professional development for those who are indeed in desperate circumstances.”
Just as my hopes were raised by the risible prospect of placard wielding clergy manning – sorry, womanning – picket lines to keep worshippers out of churches they have long since abandoned, they were dashed by this:
Evans said there is no chance of a strike at any time.
Are they sure there should be that first ‘i’ in Unifaith?
How is being part of a union an unChristian thing?
If the ACoC is a secular and unprincipled body, joining a union to protect oneself seems entirely right.
“Evans said there is no chance of a strike at any time.”…for now. We are to work as for the lord ,how we are treated is of no consequence,we can leave at any time.But I see nowhere in the bible where that would allow a christian to strike.”Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord,”
Just goes to show that these people no longer believe that what they are doing is a “calling from God”, but is instead only a “job” just like any other secular work.
There are clergy killers;
and there are killer clergy.
When the latter are in the ascendant – as per TEC, ACoC and CoE –
then the Scriptural third mark of the true Church, spiritual discipline, has not been applied because of the presence of false doctrine and its clerical-episcopal purveyors.
Unions are not the answer.