It’s Labor Day weekend. For some, it’s about sales, others, it’s back to school and signals the end of summer. For a moment, remember the true nature of Labor Day – Labor Day is in honor of the labor class and to celebrate the laborers who worked to build the U.S. into what it is today. Labor has been a long movement, unions, strikes, fair pay, safe conditions, so many things that are easy to take for granted but impact how we live today. In an interview with Elon Musk, Presidential Candidate Donald Trump praised Elon Musk for threatening union workers.
In 1962, the Supreme Court ruled that National Labor Relations Act Section 7 protects a right to strike of both unionized and non-unionized workers, regardless of whether the workers had acted through a trade union. I have still yet to have words to describe this. To borrow from the joint 2020 Utah Gubernatorial Video – we can disagree without degrading. There is more, this is a short 13 minute- TED Talk – How to Disagree without Hate. by Spencer Cox. Finally, six laborers were killed when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on March 26, 2024, This Labor Day Week, consider laborers, contemplate respect and what’s it like to disagree without hate.
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