We again encourage workers, throughout our region, to consider carefully the reasons for forming unions. Since we are all members of the human family our reasons must be based not only on our self-interest but the good of the entire community. We suggest, therefore, that organizing into collective bargaining units may be in some circumstances an objective duty of each worker to his or her co-workers. At present this may be the only effective way of assuring the protection of human dignity and self-determination in the work place. To these rights is certainly joined the right to demand working conditions in which physical health is not endangered, and young people's normal development is not impaired.
Women have the right to working conditions in accordance with their requirements.
These groupings, autonomous in character, are considered if not essential to civil society at least a natural accompaniment thereof. Among the basic rights of the human person must be counted the right of freely founding labor unions. These unions should be truly able to represent the workers and to contribute to the proper arrangement of economic life. Another such right is that of taking part freely in the activity of these unions without fear of reprisal. An end has been put to the priority of work over the worker, to the supremacy of technical and economic necessities over human needs.