Today, I’m thankful for the minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, and worker safety laws, all of which were enacted thanks to the help of the labor movement in this country.
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Today, I’m thankful for the minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, and worker safety laws, all of which were enacted thanks to the help of the labor movement in this country.
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Happy Labor Day to you too!
Misleading …and Labor Day should be abolished…It has outlived any usefulness it may have once had. No one thinks about collective Labor anymore as the means to accomplish mighty work. We think about automating,computerizing,and even specializing tools to get work done. Minimal workers and expensive tools. Man and Machine in concert until the Machine can do it without Man.
Administrative people once laughed at unions and they have been the hardest hit. I remember when every manager and every department had a secretary. Then PCs with Word and Excel replaced them and every manager was forced to be his own secretary. Automated telehone systems replaced switchboard operators. You get the picture.
The Industrial Revolution, Agricultural Revolution, and the Administration Revolution have each replaced large swaths of workers in the name of efficiency and productivity and profit.
The Thinking Revolution is at hand to achieve the same ends.
How will you survive? (History has proven you cannot compete.)