Labor day celebration
Workers in all industries keep the economic wheels turning, provide for themselves and their families, and ensure goods and services get to the people who need them. Use your vote to support them.
September is here, along with the U.S.’s annual celebration of the contributions of organized labor. Labor Day means camping, picnics, county fairs, and harvest feasts to many; its roots are in the movement to make working conditions more humane for all.
Labor unions are easy to bash, but the work of millions of ordinary people to organize workers gave us forty-hour work weeks, child labor laws, paid vacation, and worker safety regulations, among other benefits we tend to take for granted.
When union membership is high, the middle class does well. The narratives about spoiled and inefficient union workers are mostly fantasies designed to strip power from workers. Last summer we witnessed historic gains for workers in the auto industry, due to the strength of their organization.
This Labor Day falls almost exactly two months - sixty-four days - before the national election. Take some time this weekend to review the actual records of the candidates on their support for working folks - not their rhetoric, but their records.
Workers in all industries keep the economic wheels turning, provide for themselves and their families, and ensure goods and services get to the people who need them. Use your vote to support them.
One other thing caught my attention this week. When Vice President Harris was asked about her opponent’s attacks on her identity, she dismissed them with a laugh and comment: “same old tired playbook.” Instead of engaging with this despicable diversion, she called it what it is - a gambit to trigger outrage - and moved on.
Good on her.
Thank you for your work and company along this journey. Let’s do this together.
