Let's put "Labor" back into "Labor Day"

[haddayr]

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“Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were

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[kaowolfie]

I wish I could make everyone around me in Missouri read that Utah Phillips quote. And listen to and under these songs - we're facing the disappearing middle class and lower and lower wages, with a legislature that doesn't care about the electorate, and everyone I've met thinks unions are evil. To the point where I don't talk politics any more, out of fear for my physical safety. Fun, huh?