Tag: Labor Day

Labor Day Observations

Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown
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I voted for Donald J. Trump twice, with great enthusiasm. I spent his first term advocating and defending his governance. It is sad today to see him lost, trapped in 2020. This is Labor Day, a day he should be dunking on Biden and rallying the Forgotten Americans whose lives he improved through executive action and the bully pulpit, strong-arming business executives to do right by American workers. I know he has been improperly cut off from the dominant social media, yet his stream of posts on his very own platform, Truth Social, reflects no memory of his own accomplishments and his long commitment, motivating his 2016 run, to American workers. The closest he gets is a Right Side of the News story reporting, “Under Trump Americans were Financially Satisfied.” All the rest is 2020 and the Mar-A-Lago raid.

By contrast, Governor Ron DeSantis came out with a crisp Tweet:

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Beautiful Gratitude

B. W. Wooster
B. W. Wooster
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I was recently asked to put together a few words to share at a company picnic – this is the result.  Our work involves the preparation of Structural Engineering plans and specifications. The mention of ‘Rhett’ in the text is to a newborn in our little group. You can check us out here. Happy Labor Day!

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

There are two words that of late I have been coming back to.  Or perhaps they are coming to me. They are very familiar words – and you will immediately recognize both.  But unfortunately for you, you don’t know their meaning. As in fact neither do I.

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Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown
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Is this to be the last true Labor Day? This year’s elections, formally ending on November 3, will answer the question. The United States is a nation with a deep, rich tradition of honoring honest labor and of workers and workers organizations standing up for their interests and their human dignity. It is not true […]
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Colorful Cooking

Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown
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Asian Slaw and Corn MuffinsOn Labor Day morning, I made a quick trip to my local grocery store to grab a few ingredients for two celebrations. For the first celebration, at my VFW post, hot dogs were the base. I signed up to provide Asian slaw and cornbread muffins. For the second celebration, a pool party at friends’ house, I was committed to provide the Asian slaw as the veggie.

A bit more context:

Party 1. The VFW sign-up sheet resulted in:

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City Journal's 10 Blocks

Bernie’s Pro-Union Push

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Hosted by Seth Barron & Steve Malanga

Labor unions have dramatically declined as a percentage of the American workforce over the last 30 years. A new proposal from presidential candidate Bernie Sanders seeks to double union ranks, City Journal senior editor Steven Malanga reports, which would mean adding nearly 15 million new members.

Malanga joins associate editor Seth Barron to discuss Senator Sanders’s proposal, which would put new restraints on employers, limit workers’ rights to opt-out of union membership, and make other changes to U.S. labor law. The Sanders plan would also give federal workers the right to strike and force states to allow government workers to unionize.

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Clifford A. Brown
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Labor Day, in the USA, is a creation and celebration of the American worker. It stands in stark, deliberate contrast to May Day, the international “workers” day, the center of the communist calendar. I have, once again, hung out an American colors bunting, with white stars in the blue band. The first Labor Day celebration […]
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OmegaPaladin
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“Let us each Labor day, hold a congress and formulate propositions for the amelioration of the people. Send them to your Representatives with your earnest, intelligent indorsement [sic], and the laws will be changed.” Rep. Lawrence McGann, D-IL, Labor Day 1894 Most of the world celebrates labor on May 1st, designated International Worker’s Day to […]
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DrewCline
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In my USA Today column for Labor Day weekend, I recommend that public-sector unions drop the political activism and focus on providing their members with great service at a great price. You know, like every other organization in a competitive marketplace has to do.  Public-sector union bosses haven’t seemed to notice that by ending agency […]
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City Journal's 10 Blocks

Reforming Labor Unions

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Hosted by Brian C. Anderson

On Labor Day, we honor the American labor movement and the contributions that workers make to the strength and well-being of the country. It’s been more than 80 years since Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) guaranteeing the right of private-sector workers to unionize and bargain collectively for better pay and working conditions.

Today, the NLRA still governs the relationship between organized labor and employers—but in 2015, less than 10 percent of American workers belonged to a union. That’s down from nearly 40 percent in the 1950s. With economic competition from overseas and technological innovation changing the value of physical labor in the United States, maybe it’s time to rethink how American model of labor relations.

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Rick Poach
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Three days ago, my wife and I were on a driving tour of the Black Hills. We spent the night of Sept. 2 in Rapid City. Once at the motel, I opened my travel humidor and pulled out a very special cigar. In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, cigarettes of a unique brand were used […]
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Indigo Labor Day

George Savage
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shutterstock_87947731The front-page headline caught my attention: “Tide may be turning for working-class Americans.” Really? We just learned on Friday that a record 94 million Americans are not participating in the labor force. How can this be good news seven years after the Great Recession? Bloomberg columnist Al Hunt explains why we are in fact on the verge of Morning in America, Obama-style:

On the surface, this Labor Day holiday caps another dark year for U.S. unions and many working-class Americans.

Union membership in the private sector is 6.6 percent; it was 16.8 percent 30 years ago. Union members account for 35.7 percent of public sector workers, down slightly from a decade earlier.

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