After hundreds of workers were killed in Bangladesh when the factory
they worked at making clothes collapsed, Pope Francis took a moment
during his May Day homily to pray for the victims and their families as
well as condemn the labor practices that took their lives.

“How many brothers and sisters find themselves in this situation!”
said the pontiff referring to the unfair and unsafe working conditions
around the world. “Not paying fairly, not giving a job because you are
only looking at balance sheets, only looking at how to make a profit.
That goes against God!”

He couldn’t believe that the workers inside the factory were only making
roughly 38 Euros ($50) per month calling the deplorable conditions and
pay “slave labor.” Workers who subsequently died.

“I call on politicians to make every effort to relaunch the labor
market,” said Pope Francis who went on to say that unemployment is, “an
economic conception of society based on selfish profit outside the
bounds of social justice.” He also said, “We do not get dignity from
power or money or culture, no! We get dignity from work.”

The Vatican has spoken against economic inequality throughout the
economic collapse of recent years, and has been often very critical of
unregulated capitalism and the harm it inflicts.

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