I always thought the weekend was made possible by organized labor. pic.twitter.com/CmOAozuUII — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) September 14, 2019
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Enjoy this beautiful weekend in Oceania
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 1984, FOX News, labor movement, Oceania, unions, weekend 12 Comments
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
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 […]
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, John Peter Altgeld, labor, Labor Day, 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
If all goes well, in a few days, I’ll be meeting a man whose father built the secret tunnels beneath Harry Bennett’s castle on the Huron River
Every now and again, as I’ve written about him a few times in the past, I get an odd call about infamous Ford enforcer Harry Bennett, who built a fortress not far from here in 1930 to protect him from his many enemies. Not too long ago, as you might recall, a man contacted me […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Corporate Crime, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged anti-union, Arthur Brisbane, Battle of the Overpass, Benjamin Stolberg, Black Legion, castles, Ford, Ford Service Department, Gestapo, guns, Harry Bennett, Hitler, intimidation, KKK, lions, murder, paranoia, Rouge plant, The Black Legion Rides, tunnels, union busting, unions 9 Comments
Remembering those who died so that we might picnic on Labor Day
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the history of Labor Day, I thought that I’d share this old post one more time. 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 holiday until 1894, in the wake of […]
Posted in History, Uncategorized Also tagged American Railway Union, Chicago, child labor, coal mines, Eugene Debs, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Labor Day, Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company, Richard Olney, Sherman anti-trust act, Socialism, strikes, switchmen, union 15 Comments
I am disappointed in you, my fellow Michiganders
The people of Michigan had their chance yesterday to remove Rick Snyder and his administration from office. And, much to my surprise, they chose to given him four more years instead. I would have thought, given our state’s history relative to organized labor, and the conversations I’ve had with folks over the past several years, […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Michigan, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-choice, anti-union, corporatism, dismantling American cities, dismantling of public education, Election Day, election results, elections, electoral politics, Emergency Manager, for-profit charter schools, homophobia, John Engler, Koch brothers, Lon Johnson, Mark Brewer, Mark Schauer, Michigan Democratic Party, minimum wage, old white men making decisions on women's health, racism, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, tax cuts, union busting, women's health 67 Comments
