Labor Day
It's funny how this is the only holiday without celebrations or parades.
Of course, you wouldn't really expect Macy's to sponsor a parade to unionize their workers. (or GE, or Disney, or Newscorp...)
In this world, without sponsorship or coverage, things don't exist.
(Just a as a game, try to find one major media story about the "labor" part of Labor Day. Try to find any mention of the accomplishments, the 40 hour work week, health and safety, the end of child labor... ...anyone? ...anyone? ...Bueller? ...Bueller?)
Of course, you wouldn't really expect Macy's to sponsor a parade to unionize their workers. (or GE, or Disney, or Newscorp...)
In this world, without sponsorship or coverage, things don't exist.
(Just a as a game, try to find one major media story about the "labor" part of Labor Day. Try to find any mention of the accomplishments, the 40 hour work week, health and safety, the end of child labor... ...anyone? ...anyone? ...Bueller? ...Bueller?)
posted by mikevotes at
7:18 AM
8 Comments:
I thought Labor Day was about shopping for back-to-school clothes, barbecuing, drinking beer and wishing for more Nascar racing.....
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Lew Scannon, at 10:43 AM
The good people of Detroit come through - they have a Labor Day parade every year. http://tinyurl.com/mapyjq
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MIckey, at 1:35 PM
Whereas, without labor organizing, we wouldn't even get the day off. We'd still be working 7 day weeks.
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mikevotes, at 1:41 PM
Labor Day: The Forgotten Holiday
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.
Commentary By: Walter Brasch
Read the whole story:
http://allspinzone.com/wp/
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Anonymous, at 2:17 PM
I didn't know that Detroit still had a parade...
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The WaPo also had a kind of nothing editorial, but it was more about the loss of a valuation of work in a small "l" labor sense, than a big "L" Labor unions.
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mikevotes, at 5:25 PM
Get your hands on a copy of the documentary "Seeing Red". That'll give you a little perspective on Labor's Struggles.
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Anonymous, at 9:24 PM
Obviously, I haven't seen it as of this point, but it was certainly the anti-communist putsch that change the public image of Labor.
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mikevotes, at 10:07 PM
The biggest irony of course is that "labor day" is on May 1st for the rest of the world. "International worker's day" as it is known actually originates in the U.S. The date was changed at some point and the whole idea is kind of downplayed in the U.S.
Instead of celebrating "workers" we celebrate "labor". A subtle but effective shift. I guess we are supposed to be celebrating the fact that we have jobs, if we actually do have them.
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Praguetwin, at 12:12 AM
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