Archbishop Wenski, who chairs the U.S. bishops’ committee on domestic justice and human development, issued the conference’s annual Labor Day statement for 2016. He focused the message on the present-day “twin crises,” problems affecting families and workers.
The two crises are related, he said: Poverty and a lack of access to good jobs has harmed the dignity of workers and has stood as an obstacle to family life.
The archbishop pointed to problems of “stagnant wages, industry leaving towns and cities behind, and the sharp decline in the rate of private-sector organized labor,” as well as increasing rates of child poverty.
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