Many Catholic activists remain indifferent to unions

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/many-catholic-activists-remain-indifferent-unions
MGB: Opposing Kavenaugh because he will be the fifth justice to overturn Roe is simply untrue. Roberts and Alito are already on the record in Gonzalez as supporting Roe. I expect Kennedy proteges' Gorsuch and Kavenaugh to be vote the same way, leaving only one justice in support of overturning Roe, not on states' rights grounds but because the Court may have derivative authority from Congress to change when the unborn are recognized.  Congress could do that too and there are likely seven votes to ratify that power.

Planned Parenthood, NARAL, AFSCME and especially the NEA will still claim Roe is in danger, however, because it is good for recruiting and fundraising. Their fundraising is good for the right to life side, who otherwise has no chance of success or even survival, save help from the Catholic Bishops. The bishops are reflexively anti-union for their own workers, especially teachers - with the excuse that an NEA link would conflict with their message on life, which is still based on the lie that Roe could be repealed.

Planned Parenthood is led by doctors, who are reflexively anti-nurse. Since they mostly operate as a cash business, they don't have the margin for unionized labor. Libertarianism has nothing to do with it.

Not shopping at anti-union establishments is a small step, but does that include not going to Catholic schools or Mass? I think not, so the rest falls apart.  Catholic social teaching exists, and it is pro-union, so as to base unions on something other than Marxism. That is also a mistake. Without the Marxist logic of workers controlling both the means of production and the means of consumption (and schools are a thing consumed, as well as hotels and taxis), unionization is simply a pious hope.

Unions cannot exist as a countervailing force without a strong Democratic Party, but maybe that party must also ally itself  with socialism and worker control. The bishops hate the idea of teacher controlled Catholic schools. Ironically, when the holy sisters controlled the schools, that is exactly what they had, as long as they let the pastor think he was in control. Parental input was much more important, both then and now.

If the parents worked for a single cooperative, such control would mean something and unions would not be in opposition to management, they would be part of it. Until unions embrace such a Marxist goal, they no longer deserve to exist.