I know it’s probably cheating, but here’s something that I posted more than half a decade ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it’s even more appropriate today, seeing as how Michigan has since become a so-called “right to work” state, and we now how have an unquestionably anti-worker administration running […]
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A big “thank you” to all those who died in the Chicago rail yards so that we might have the day off to grill hot dogs… Happy Labor Day
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, History, Michigan, Other Also tagged Alexander Acosta, American Railway Union, Capitalism, Chicago, company towns, Eugene Debs, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Ivanka Trump, labor, Labor Day, labor history, living wage, Marvin Kaplan, National Guard, National Labor Relations Board, Patrick Pizzella, Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, right-to-work, Samuel Alito, strikebreakers, strikes, sympathy strikes, unions, William Emanuel 7 Comments
Happy Labor Day again, you Socialist sons of bitches!
I know it’s probably cheating, but here’s something that I wrote a couple of years ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it’s even more appropriate today. As some of you probably know, Labor Day was first celebrated here in the United States in 1882. It wasn’t, however, made a national […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, History, Other Also tagged 1882, American Railway Union, arbitration, Chicago, company towns, Eugene Debs, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Labor Day, minimum wage, National Guard, Peter S. Grosscup, Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, Richard Olney, strikes, union busting, unions, William A. Woods, World's Colombian Exposition 31 Comments