The Abject Failure that is Labor Day in America

Labor Day was <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/08/31/what-labor-day-and-why-do-we-celebrate-it" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">first celebrated in the late 19th century</a> and became a federal holiday in 1894. It has its roots in the original labor movements of the industrial revolution, when workers started organizing into unions and striking against their corporate bosses who forced poor working conditions and long hours on their workers. It was a violent time in the history of the American labor movement. Attempts to violently put down strikers were common, and the Pinkertons gained their infamy for their strike-breaking efforts on behalf of the various robber-barons. <a href="https://pinkerton.com/our-story/history" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">They don’t really like to talk about it, though</a>. The efforts of these various labor reps and unions eventually won out, and things like the 40-hour work week were eventually put into effect. A lot of the things that we take for granted came out of the worker’s movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The price for these gains was a significant amount of blood and death on behalf of union members and workers throughout the country. To some degree, Labor Day is a celebration of the brave people who stood up to their cruel bosses and demanded better conditions and pay for themselves. We are a country of workers built by workers. There are tens of millions of us throughout the 50 states that make up our country, and workers have a lot more power than I think we realize sometimes. The amount of control that we could exert over the various American Oligarchs that make the rules is vast. Should we return to the roots of the labor movement in those early days, a lot of progress could be made. <a href="https://medium.com/thing-a-day/the-abject-failure-that-is-labor-day-in-america-9c847370826">Click Here</a>