Someone must be protesting something being built at Immaculata.
I hope it doesn’t have to do with the Camilla Hall project as that is the place where there is the Convent Home and Healthcare Center of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Translation, this is like a nursing home and medical center. They take care of their own and that is an amazingly good thing.
I think these sisters do a lot for the community at large and I was left feeling very uncomfortable that someone was seemingly protesting them or someone working for them along King Road.
I do not object to unions, I don’t want anyone to think that, but I just don’t think people should be unkind to the sisters.
So please, whoever this is, if you have a beef with a non-union company doing work for the nuns, take your protest to them wherever their business is actually located, and leave the sisters be.
The sisters are good to our community. And trust me, it is also rare that an academic institution is also good to the community. I used to live near a couple which weren’t and trust me, if they were the ones being protested I would not have said a word.
I think what they don’t like is that it’s being built with a non-union electrical contractor.
But if the sisters chose whom they could afford what then? In Chester County are they supposed to use a certain percentage of union workers? I just don’t know how it works out here in the country. Why not send union representatives to speak with the sisters about future work? Wouldn’t that potentially be more profitable than protesting?