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Uploaded by on Sep 3, 2010

It's day off of work for America, a time for family picnics, short vacations and parades. But where did the origins of Labor Day come from? And do Americans really honor the reasons why we celebrate this day?

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  • because we're all corporate slaves

  • 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.

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  • 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?

  • 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.

  • @MarmaladeINFP haha

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

  • @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

  • @MarmaladeINFP robots will take our jobs in the future.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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