Labor Day losing its meaning?

[DakkonDS]

start burning down the houses of the rich. rob them. steal from the stores. only then will the leet morons know we wont take it anymore. they can slave you when they are dead or hurting bad. get my point?

[jscottupton]

She's lying. The 8 hour work day, etc. etc. are a result of an increase in our overall standard of living and the competition for labor. Since our standard of living is now dropping we will have to work harder to keep even. Organized labor is simply a special interest group.

[TbTReviews]

Labor day is after school starts for most people and I worked on labor day, so...

[moo93986]

Um, yeah there are a hell of a lot of problems and corruption in unions today in America, same goes for corporations.

The best way to solve union and corporate issues is to instill actual worker's rights laws and affordable benefits for the average worker.

[Valdrag]

I am very glad that the unions are losing power, we can see that in the auto and teaching industry unions are making it impossible for workers wo dont do thier jobs to be fired. Thus the quality of service in those industries is suffering.

[22reTOYOTA]

Just think how wonderful the obama administration is doing. Labor Day turned into Labor Year!!

[BurnSideBlues]

Labor Day is cool but it also is a lame holiday after all there is alot of people now who dont work when will we have a Sextion 8 day or a Food Stamp Day

[envanje]

I don't think the disappearance of unions will mean the victory of capitalism.

[tkcrofamericans]

Unions are for POWER they do not care about the workers only there Union DUES!!!!!! Get this socialist idiot off of here. SEIU & AFL-CIO use people then throw them out they also are bankrupting our country. Lets see Post Office bankrupt, State Budgets bankrupt, Local Budgets bankrupt and also the Federal Budget bankrupt. There pensions are killing this country you do not and I will not give you more than I get. Teachers say we do it for the kids some yes but most do it for MONEY!!!!!!!

[koberask]

Join the largest movement for social change with over 500k supporters globally! Google the Zeitgeist Movement! Much better than workers rights, it is everyones rights!

[policestory]

Long live May 1st as the REAL Labor Day. Remember the Socialists and Communists that died on the frontlines of struggle to win your eight hour day, your minimum wage, and the abolishment of child labor laws.. to name a few. The unions in the United States really need to realize that the Democratic Party doesn't and has never had their back.

[mcap52]

Labor Day is about workers rights?? Get your facts straight b4 reporting something. This day is nothing but a salute to communist,fascist and liberal scumbags trying to destroy capitalism.

[policestory]

@mcap52 Capitalism needs to be destroyed and replaced with a workers state. Where the needs of the majority working class are met. If we continue with Capitalism, more working class families (which are the majority in the United States) run the risk of unemployment, foreclosure, and homelessness.

[gamlerik1]

Goatboy reporting...!

[SpaceMan131326]

what a bunch of lies, people work more then 8 hours a day, most factoy workers work 10 or 12 hours, and most places have taken away benifits, we have no real rights here, it is all lies, less wages and longer hours, what a joke this news cast is,

[ZeroFiftyFour]

Also on the 1st of May 1776 Bavarian Illuminati was formed by Adam Weishaupt, a high-ranking Satanist.

[SpaceMan131326]

@ZeroFiftyFour well all those that follow Satan will burn in hell very soon, God always stronger then evil, so those illuminati will also die from the fall out dust that has a lasting effect plus their under ground bunkers shall not hold up over time because the dust will last 4.5 billion years, like who would be so dumb to follow the Satan, Satan so they can burn in Hell, I shall fight you Satan and all of your evil upon earth

[Northgrant]

Well, I wonder why the labour unions have lost their importance... Could it be because they ALLOW the exportation of jobs to China, Mexico, India (i.e. Non-white countries) all the while giving me the middle finger?

FUCK THEM.

I'm working on Monday.

[cooperbry]

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[Birdietweet]

May Day? Isnt that when you dance around a May Pole ??

[skeewiz]

It was, before the Haymarket incident in Chicago in 1886. The Fench, in solidarity, due to this insident, Named May Day international Labor Day

[cooperbry]

"The alternative to capitalism". The only alternative to capitalism is tyranny. Don't be fooled by these silly people. Capitalism is the only system to free people from tyranny and raise their standard of living. Just look at history for the truth!

[skeewiz]

Most of History Ignors or vilifies those people who have been crushed by Capitalism. Your history is a lie!

[jscottupton]

"all of this would not have been possible if it weren't for the radical workers movement of the late 18 hundreds..." WRONG. The competition among employers for labor is what improved working hours and working conditions...in other words...the free market made things better. It is a myth that special interest labor unions help EVERYONE. They only help the people in the union.

[johnlocke868]

Barry Soetoro fall through on another promise? Whats new! Just another step towards serfdom.

[Jicim]

an alternative to capitalism is in my best interest? no i like being able to do what i want with my tools.

[fog0death]

@Jicim You shouldn't fight communism, it's easier for everyone to just accept it.

[Jicim]

@fog0death i'm no canadian

[AustrianAtheist]

You think, that a better world is not possible?

[Jicim]

no. you think capitalism is bad?

[AustrianAtheist]

I think that social capitalism (that includes cheap healthcare + education/maximum working hours/social rights + social transfers) is the best system, we have had yet.

But I am 100% a better system is possible, also a lot of states have things, that I would like. For instance the direct democracy of Switzerland is great and could be implemented in many other states, or the pension fund of Norway (nationalized oil run by state fond-> profit for pensions of the people)

[MarmaladeINFP]

This isn't surprising. Worker unions have been losing their membership and their power for more than a half century. Also, corporations have become transnational, but unions for the most part haven't. Sometime in the coming decades we'll see a new workers movement. Until then, the exploitation will just get worse and wealth disparity will continue to increase.

[humantestdummy]

@MarmaladeINFP robots will take our jobs in the future.

[MarmaladeINFP]

@humantestdummy Okay, fine. In that case, let me restate my above comment:

Sometime in the coming decades we'll see a new robot workers movement.

There ya go. Is that better? lol :D

[humantestdummy]

@MarmaladeINFP haha

[limitedgovt999]

"Benefit and support of labor unions"? What is that woman smoking, unions are just like govt using coercive force to benefit a few at the expense of the many. Look what they've done to care companies, schools, etc...

[blackiron60]

So Obama is going to spew out more lies about how he and his government supposedly "standing for the working man", for the "little guy", and his union lackeys in the AFL-CIO, who willingly purged their ranks of socialists at the behest of Senator McCarthy in the 1950s, will continue to love him for his bullshit statements without substance. Workers only succeed when they struggle together in solidarity, not when they rely on a corporate-capitalist president to give them handouts.

[HerrSpieldose]

we all know most democrats don't work so of course it has no meaning to them...

[AnotherAgnostic]

@HerrSpieldose, your a fucking retarded troll.

[YouSayYouWantA]

watch Russia for your Labor Day news!!!

[avastacia]

people in this country use ANY holiday as an excuse to go to the park and have a cook-out celebration, even though most of them don't really know what they are celebrating and what the holiday in question really stands for. ugh! sad, just sad!

[1x93cm]

because we're all corporate slaves

[xxLatinKillaxx]

@1x93cm yea theres nothing we cannot do about it wait..

everything is possible in this world NOTHINGs immpossible =)

[Xenda]

Everything is loosing it's meaning in this country! Sad.

[OrphanPaper]

the only thing beaten are the worker ,and the Constitution ,and dogs of the rich elitist or cast system like obarma rush to do there bidding

[GravDiga]

@OrphanPaper Nothing to see here, Everything is fine just drink your beer and have some apple pie.

[avastacia]

@OrphanPaper "obarma"?! that's funny!! *^_^*