Happy Labor Day

[bobabode]

Take a moment and bow your heads over those heroes of yesteryear who gave their all for us working stiffs.

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[Pio1980]

The Salt Lake Tribune has been running articles on Joe Hill last week.

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[Ike Bana]

A little history? The reason why Labor Day is The first Monday in September. May 4, 1886 was the date of the notorious Haymarket Riots here in Chicago. Seven cops and four demonstrators were killed. There was a push for the date celebrating the labor movement in this country to be May 1. But President Grover Cleveland decided that date would possibly end up being a yearly source of disruptions by unionists. So by Presidential order, Labor Day was to be the first Monday in September.

[bobabode]

In other labor news, Charlie Pierce at Esquire....

"On Monday, to celebrate Labor Day, the president came to Boston toting that big empty bag of fcks that he no longer gives. The annual breakfast thrown by the Boston Labor Council this year had a few things to distinguish it from previous affairs. First, thanks to the organizing efforts of the service employee unions and the hotel workers unions, the breakfast had a refreshingly diverse flavor to it. (In previous years, it had looked like a bad afternoon at the 19th Hole at Hingham Country Club.) Second, the president showed up and announced that, by executive order, he was mandating paid sick leave for all federal workers and federal contract workers, a further indication of how empty the big bag of fcks truly is."
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...-scott-walker/

Looks like this 'lame duck' president is working on that, (rhymes with ), bucket list.

[catswiththum]

It is interesting to see how the percentage of union membership by profession coincides with the changing nature of our economy.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t03.htm