Labor Day Is A Celebration Of American Exceptionalism, Job Creators, And Hard Workers

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For them it's worth living in a tent on a sidewalk addicted to drugs.

Quit talking about shit you know nothing about.

 

[JGalt]

Labor Day 2022: Facts, Meaning & Founding | HISTORY

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, under President Grover Cleveland. Cleveland created the holiday during a crisis over federal efforts to end a strike by railroad workers. Today the holiday—celebrated on the first Monday in September—pays tribute to the contributions of American...

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This administration is more beholding to the labor unions than they are those who actually work for a living. In fact, the first thing Kamala Harris posted on Twitter, was exactly that..

Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris

United States government official
https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated
Thanks to unions and the labor movement, we have overtime pay, worker protections, and more. When unions are strong, America is strong.

Same with Biden:

Joe Biden
@JoeBiden



United States government official
The middle class built America, and unions built the middle class. On Labor Day, we recognize the fight unions and workers across the country have endured to keep our economy moving and make our nation strong.

 

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This administration is more beholding to the labor unions than they are those who actually work for a living. In fact, the first thing Kamala Harris posted on Twitter, was exactly that..

Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris

United States government official
https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated
Thanks to unions and the labor movement, we have overtime pay, worker protections, and more. When unions are strong, America is strong.

Same with Biden:

Joe Biden
@JoeBiden



United States government official
The middle class built America, and unions built the middle class. On Labor Day, we recognize the fight unions and workers across the country have endured to keep our economy moving and make our nation strong.

The labor movement made child labor illegal and improved work place safety among other things.

 

[22lcidw]

The labor movement made child labor illegal and improved work place safety among other things.

Unions are good, until they become corrupted.

 

[insolent imp]

Unions are good, until they become corrupted.

or mob influenced

 

[surada]

Labor Day 2022: Facts, Meaning & Founding | HISTORY

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, under President Grover Cleveland. Cleveland created the holiday during a crisis over federal efforts to end a strike by railroad workers. Today the holiday—celebrated on the first Monday in September—pays tribute to the contributions of American...

www.history.com

 

[surada]

Unions are good, until they become corrupted.

Anything is good until it becomes corrupt. Unions contributed a lot to the middle class.

 

[WEATHER53]

May God bless and reward all the hard working people who strive for independent and productive lives
Welfare weepers, not so much.

 

[JGalt]

The labor movement made child labor illegal and improved work place safety among other things.

As well as extorting money from their members in the form of "dues", corruption, theft, dictating who can work and who can't, links to organized crime, driving the price up on goods and services, driving corporations to outsource their manufacturing overseas, and throwing huge sums of those union worker's dues into political candidates that give them kickbacks and special concessions.

No matter what they did in the past, labor unions have outlived their usefulness

 

[surada]

As well as extorting money from their members in the form of "dues", corruption, theft, dictating who can work and who can't, links to organized crime, driving the price up on goods and services, driving corporations to outsource their manufacturing overseas, and throwing huge sums of those union worker's dues into political candidates that give them kickbacks and special concessions.

No matter what they did in the past, labor unions have outlived their usefulness

Dues are now extortion?

 

[JGalt]

Dues are now extortion?

It is extortion if you don't want to pay them. No payee, no workee

 

[Calypso Jones]

Labor unions are what have made life tolerable for average working people. They fought the corrupt industrial tyrants who were out to take advantage of people. Eed still be living in those times without them. I salute the unions.

They've outlived their use.

 

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This Labor Day, thank unions for
- weekends
- 8-hour workdays
- a minimum wage
- paid overtime
- breaks during work
- the right to strike
- child labor laws
- workplace safety standards

 

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[WEATHER53]

This Labor Day, thank unions for
- weekends
- 8-hour workdays
- a minimum wage
- paid overtime
- breaks during work
- the right to strike
- child labor laws
- workplace safety standards

Actually it was a lady secretary of labor that codified child labor laws, 40 hour work week and the like. Not unions

Unions corrected the extreme disadvantage that the worker was under versus employer and by 1970 that was completed . Since then they have invented causes to stay around for

 

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn labor organizer for Industrial Workers of the World. Went to Lawrence, MA during the Bread & Roses textile strike. Absolute legend. Founding Member of the ACLU.

 

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A remarkable essay on the first factory strike *ever* in the United States, which was carried out in 1824 by young women weavers in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. it lasted for a week. the protesters blocked mill entrances, threw rocks at bosses, and protested on the streets, and even set fire to one of the mills, which promptly led to the end of the strike

Pawtucket, America’s First Factory Strike

This week 194 years ago, Rhode Island textile workers waged the first factory strike in US history. It was organized by young women.

jacobin.com

 

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1790 Samuel Slater built the nation's 1st cotton mill. 1803 The US purchased the Louisiana territory from France for $15 million.

To the British, Samuel Slater was "Slater the Traitor" but to the Americans, he was the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson)

he created the "bring your children to work" thing

many high schools are named after him

 

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