The modern conservative movement is doing its best to weaken unions, and the percentage of jobs represented by unions are at the lowest in 76 years.
So what are conservatives celebrating today? Their victory over labor? The end of summer? The return of heavy, dark clothing? Does Labor Day have any significance at all to conservatives?
In the UK, like the rest of Europe, it’s May 1, but UK conservatives have the option that it’s the anniversary of the Union between England and Scotland. For the moment (thanks to them, it might still fall apart). But no-one bothers that much, since the public holiday is the first Monday in May; and it usually rains.
We order our servants to mow the lawn over and over and over, while the palm frond slave girls perform oral sex over and over and over. We sometimes awaken to piss on the yard boys cutting the grass.
sarcasm ends Was this a serious question from the OP? Assuming, arguendo, that us conservatives don’t give a fiddler’s fuck about the plight of the average laborer, do you think we just walk around in circles, confused about why we have this day off?
Let’s take just a part of the wiki quote:
[It honors…and the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of the country.
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There’s two things in that sentence being honored. You can loathe unions with a deep and all encompassing passion and still celebrate the second part…
I am economically conservative and disrespect labor unions in general. I also work in management for high-tech manufacturing. We treat our workers (I am one too; there is no hard distinction between managers and “workers”) extremely well so that unionizing would be nothing but disadvantageous to everyone involved.
I am confused by the question as well. Labor Day is one of the low maintenance holidays like Memorial Day or the 4th of July. You just get a day off and can do whatever you want. It has nothing to do with unions unless someone is under the delusion that only the small percentage of unionized “workers” are the only ones that contribute.
It is just a day off to hang out and nothing more than that.
I don’t think labor unions are worth their cost, but I usually just go boating, have a BBQ, or do other summer-time vacation-ish stuff on Labor Day. I really don’t think about labor unions during the holiday. If I did, it’s because I had some crappy interaction with some unionized TSA goon or something like that.
For the last 100 years May 1 has been “promoted by the international labour movement, socialists, communists and anarchists”, in competition to our (vic.aus) state Labour Day (8 hour day), the second Monday in March.
celebrate all the illegal aliens taking union jobs. Wait, wrong party.
Sorry, We’re celebrating the FOIA so we can try and find out what politicians are selling behind closed doors when they get 6 figure incomes for a speech.