Labor Day: The Forgotten Holiday

[Stingo]

Millions of Americans will have their bar-b-ques and family reunions, they’ll splash in the ocean or hike mountain trails, and they will have no idea why the struggle for worker rights must be fought every day by every worker. Labor Day is a forgotten holiday.

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2009/09/07/labor-day-the-forgotten-holiday/

[stray cat]

1. Do you really think most of us are not interested in rights for workers as most of us work?

however, it can't be based solely on blanket support for unions. Health care is worker's rights; pensions, savings plans, good education.

[rhett o rick]

5. Are you a union supporter? nt

[quiller4]

7. And the best way to secure workers' rights and pensions is

through union representation and collective bargaining. Represented workers fair better on every economic measure and have recourse when their rights are abridged.

[customerserviceguy]

2. You could make the same case about Memorial Day

Practically no holiday is held in anywhere near the same reverence as it was when I was a kid. Except Super Bowl Sunday.

[Stingo]

3. Super Bowl

is a holiday where we should be reverential. Christmas, not so much.

[endless october]

4. good article.

thanks for linking it.

[Stingo]

6. You're welcome

it is by one of my colleagues.