Gratitude for Labor Day its True Meaning! Unions Rule!

For most of us, Labor Day means backyard barbecues, weekend sales, and at last carefree day before school starts. But the laid-back holiday has some seriously sad history, including chaos, riots, and even
death. Let us explain.

A tragic tale, Back in the days of the Industrial Revolution, workers were expected to put in 12-hour days, seven days a week (yes, including kids).

Already sounds awful, right? It gets worse. In Pullman, Illinois, a company town that employed and housed workers to build posh railway cars, times had gotten tough. In response, George Pullman cut jobs and wages. It was 1893. Thousands of workers walked off their jobs in protest, demanding higher salaries and lower rents. Other unions joined, refusing to work the Pullman cars, turning the small-town
fracas into a national fury.

With mail cars backing up, and riots worrying train execs, President Grover Cleveland stepped in. He declared the strike illegal and sent
12,000 troops to break the strike. Cue brutal protests and bloodshed. The strike was broken, but so was the spirit of the workers. To reach out to the labor movement, Congress rushed the national holiday into
law. The bad will resulted in Cleveland losing re-election. But the day off for hot dogs endures.

What also endures are proper work shifts: a 40 hr work week, workers rights, disability, OSHA and
if a worker is injured on the job, their employer must cover their medical bills.

Also irresponsible employers who knowingly
endanger their workers are held accountable. Children are not allowed to be hired and certain regulations that protect workers from slave labor
are in place. Plus a minimum wage is now in place, paid l;eaves, social security and all worker rights. Even non union members owe something to
America's Labor movement.

Without Unions workers injured on their jobs have no recourse. Slave shops would be operating with inhumane work environments. Let us never forget
The Triangle Shift Company fire. The Triangle Shirt Employees were not unionized. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire.


Keep in mind when companies moved offshore or hire non union workers they Do Not have to abide by Union Responsibilities. Off shore companies can run slave labor work places in order to profit from working people to death.

If you value your worker rights then you had better reacquaint your self with the meaning of Labor Day and of workers rights and employer responsibilities
to their workers. Educate your self and remain informed. When is it?

Labor Day falls on the first Monday of September. This year, that would be Monday, September 7. According to the Department of Labor, Congress passed an act in 1894 making the first Monday in September of
each year a legal holiday.

Be grateful greedy companies can no longer work you or your children to death for their profits. They also must own any ways in which they jeopardize your health by running hazardous work situations. People with selective amnesia wake the F@#k Up! Uneducated people learn to read and get educated about your workers rights! So, working people everywhere, say it now, with feeling: Happy Labor Day.