Hillary: Thank The Labor Movement!

[Cha]

Link to tweet

[mcar]

1. That's my Madam President!

[Cha]

3. Yeah, Thinking of the Laborers on Labor

Day! What a concept!

Mahalo, mcar!

[Hortensis]

9. :) Yes.

In the truest sense, voters elected our first woman president, who was kept from taking office.

[Clash City Rocker]

2. Yeah, those Wall Street corporate shills are always saying things like that

[brer cat]

4. K&R

[Cha]

7. Thanks, brer.. what a real President

looks like.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Yeah UNIONS!

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a10318921/history-of-labor-day/

Labor Day is one of the least recognized, forgotten-about-until-around-the-corner holidays of the year—one that we seem to appreciate only after realizing it affords us a three-day weekend come September. Here, seven tidbits you probably never knew about the holiday.

THE FIRST LABOR DAY CELEBRATION WAS SEPTEMBER 5, 1882 IN NEW YORK CITY.
On that Tuesday, 10,000 citizens marched for labor rights down the streets of Manhattan. During this time the average American worked 12 hours a day, six days a week. It wasn't until the Adamson Act passed on September 3, 1916 that our modern eight-hour work day was established.

TCM should show the film Norma Rae today.

[Cha]

6. And, the Unions! Thank You!

Thanks for this history, BP!

[BigmanPigman]

8. My family was always pro union

so it's in my DNA. I spent my Summer Vacation walking the picket line with my sister and dad when I was 11. It was not fun but I knew it was important (AT&T/Bell Telephone). When I was waiting for openings for teachers I subbed for two long years. When there finally were new openings the principal at one of the schools I subbed at asked who he should hire and the teachers told him to hire me since I didn't cross the picket line and walked it with them. They didn't forget that. I eventually became a rep myself and was harassed by every principal for it during my entire career teaching but that did not stop me.

The union literally saved my life. My "new"classroom was full of mold and my students and I were using inhalers. I was sick 33% of the time in my first two months in the building. The union sent people out to check it out after I went to them with my info. The school district said the air outside was worse than the air inside but I knew they were lying...they gave me a can of Lysol and a fan (no windows and hundreds of gallons of stagnant water in ceiling...tons of black mold). The union got the entire building torn down it was so bad. I have permanent damage from it. Go Unions!!!

[Cha]

15. Oh.. I'm so sorry you had to go

through that! Unions literally did save your life!

Thank you for all you've done for Unions!

[BigmanPigman]

17. Unfortunately the newer teachers are very apathetic...

it is frustrating and disappointing too.

[Cha]

20. It is disappointing.. they'd

be helping themselves, too.

[DAMANgoldberg]

10. I went to school near were this movie was filmed

That would be Auburn University. At the time, the Opelika Manufacturing Mill on 1st Avenue and the Golden Cherry motel were around (long gone now). It was a point of pride for the town as the plant was a stepchild to the larger West Point Pepperell mill in the same general area of town.

Today I Learned (TIL) is that the actual plant that was serialized in Opelika was in Roanoke Rapids NC (not close to where I live now).

[BigmanPigman]

18. Was the town pro-union before the film was made?

[DAMANgoldberg]

31. Not really

The Opelika side of the area is moderately conservative, the Auburn side is more conservative, especially in the town part away from the University. Since I haven't lived there in almost 30 years, can't really make a true on the ground read on it, but this is Alabama we are talking about here, so little has changed.

I still have some friends there, and they are liberal, but not the dominant factor there.

[BigmanPigman]

32. I guess most areas close to universities are more liberal in general.

[DAMANgoldberg]

33. I have found that too...

During my visits to Tuscaloosa, the same could be said about them. Big difference though is Tuscaloosa is a bigger place and doesn't totally revolve around the University. Auburn is more like Clemson, Starkville (Miss State), and Virginia Tech in that matter.

[BigmanPigman]

34. Those damn educated elitists.

[DAMANgoldberg]

35. That is why I don't hate Alabama

That is the U of Alabama. I want our sports programs to drub them on the field, diamond, court, and equestrian range (BTW, National Champs this year). However, having both Universities in the state, and others such as UAB, Alabama A&M, etc. is the one saving grace of being in Alabama.

Plus I-85 goes North!

[Delmette2.0]

11. TGIF??

Don't Thank God for Friday's, thank a Union. God wanted us to work 6 days a week, Unions got us 5 work day weeks.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. I agree Hillary... thank you labor unions!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!

[Martin Eden]

13. The struggle between labor and capital is far from over ...

... and the pendulum is swinging back towards capital.

[SunSeeker]

14. K & R & Retweeted!

[Cha]

21. 13K Retweets & 74K Likes!

Mahalo!

[ffr]

16. I love it! Thank you Cha!

[Cha]

23. You're Welcome, ffr!

[warmfeet]

19. I have always been pro-union.

My dad was the vice president of his local union - 1960's, 70's and 80's. I helped to organize a food service workers union while in college. I voted for Hillary, and would do so again.

I vote for workers and workers rights.

Happy Labor Day! Hooray for workers!

[Cha]

26. Thank you for

all you've done for Unions, warmfeet.. and your Dad!

[whathehell]

22. Damn rigjt?

[whathehell]

24. Damned right!

WAY too many people forget this.

[Wawannabe]

25. Damn right!

Truth!

[Kurt V.]

27. K&R. now, let's live it.

[Iliyah]

28. The legitimate President of the United States of America!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. Prez Hilz knows!

[guillaumeb]

30. So this is what a President would sound like.

Instead, we have a sociopathic moron with a 4 year old's emotional level.