Labor Day Rundown
Rather than blog a bunch about Labor Day I took to Twitter, where I wrote a Twitter essay and a bunch of follow up stuff about my views on the history of American workers. The core tweets were storified and you might be interested in them.
Some other things of note today on labor.
Will Missouri go right to work? No one is sure.
Good for Obama ordering paid sick leave for federal contractors. Another point in his late-term actions for workers, other than that Trans-Pacific Partnership thing, which pretty much counters all of it.
Welfare no longer serves the poorest Americans.
Slate pulled a pretty good Labor Day #slatepitch by suggesting that anti-union Yuengling is a great beer to drink on this holiday.
There’s a lot of organizing happening in the Silicon Valley. Can’t happen fast enough.
Texas governor Greg Abbott is a terrible human.
We celebrate Labor Day in Texas where employees have the right to work free from union coercion & free to reap rewards from hard work.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 7, 2015
Of course, this comes the same day yet another Texas worker died in a refinery. He was expressing his true freedom through death.
Here’s a 1981 ad from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union about buying union label clothing. Union clothing made in the U.S. definitely is part of history, sadly.