What are you doing for Labor Day?
Not the one in September. I mean the one on the first of may, which most of the rest of the world observes as International Worker's Day.
Maybe the time is right for a little unified action in support of Labor. With the recent labor awareness and its current visibility in the mid-west, we should continue to push. We know that broadcast media doesn't show big rallies. Maybe they'd notice if enough people didn't come in to work.
We always hear the pundits talking about people voting with their pocketbooks. Here's a opportunity to call for a referendum.
It's not a week day this year (1 May a Sunday) but perhaps the 2nd might be a good day apply a little economic pressure. Call in sick? Take some time off? Play hooky?
I've got no labor history, nor in my family. But I've always been pro-union.
I know what unions have done for all workers. I wish I knew how to revive interest in union membership. I work in an industry (programming) which is knee-jerkingly anti-union, so there's no possibility of advancing it here at work, (though you'd think that the differences between what happened in this office as opposed to the offices in Europe when there was a mass lay-off in '08 would have sparked some thought.)
But I can take the day off.