Labor Day 2011

You got the day off today and you're not a Federal or State employee (or in retail)?

Thank unions. (via skippy)

I mean, you don't want to be a hypocrite, do you? Like bashing unions on your union fought lunch break? Which means if you practice what you preach, you don't get a lunch break.

Corporations use to work employees 80+ hours a week, offer no breaks, hire children, offer horrid, unsanitary work conditions, paid literally next to nothing, and even murder. Not murder with a pen like they do today, but actual murder. They basically did whatever they wanted.

This is what they were like before unions. Don't take my word for it, look it up. [...] If we rid the world of unions tomorrow, who is to say that they won't go right back to the way they were merely 70 years ago? The GOP governor of Maine signed a bill to repeal child labor laws this year, maybe they are going back to their roots whether we have unions or not.

So conservatives, please practice what you preach and give up all these rights and leave the umbrella of these laws for they were brought to you by unions...

Followed by a list of practices fought for by unions. I might argue with a couple.


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ETA:  Brilliant at Breakfast has two posts on the subject:  one with music videos commemorating those who create value; one extensively quoting E. J. Dionne.