The State of Labor Address

Who should attend:

• All Members of UUCB

• Friends and Family

• Union Members

• Neo-cons

• Transnationalists

• The Middle Class

• The Lower Class

• The Upper Class

• Employed

• Unemployed

• Women

• Children

• Men

The reason a middle class exists is because labor, (in which workers sell their labor and the employers buy it) was contained for the most part in the United States during the 20^th century. Labor makes the wheels of our country go round. And yet this seems to be a devalued group of people in our society. You do not see many T.V. Shows about getting up every day and getting to the restaurant to prepare food and coffee for the workers who are just getting up to go to work. Yet this is where most of us live. The production process of the things we use in life has become  invisible over the last several decades. It was also invisible at the turn of the 20th century. This invisibility does not bode well for the middle class.  So we ask, What is the state of labor? When labor is healthy the nation  seems to be healthy.

As Unitarian Universalist there are seven principles which Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote:

• The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
• Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
• Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
• A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
• The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
• The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for  all;
• Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

These principles call the invisible to be visible and no individual or group of people ought to be invisible in our society. There is only one  reason to keep an individual or group of people invisible and that is to  use them and to hide our shame in doing so. When we Unitarians Universalists call attention to the invisible in our society, we are honoring our faith tradition and ourselves. This Sunday we call attention to a group of people who are fading from our sight.

Rev. Gregory Wilson