Tomorrow is Labor Day, originally created to honor voluntary associations of workers who came together to confront managements and win better wages, hours, and working conditions for non-supervisory workers. The labor movement today remains strong mostly with government employees. In the private sector it has lost its vigor.
The modern Labor Day is simply a day we do not labor, making a three day weekend that - along with the Memorial Day weekend - are the bookends of summer for most people. The original purpose appears lost.
This 2020 is the strangest and most ill-favored year most of us can remember; in spite of which I hope you have a nice extended weekend. Remember to social distance and wear a mask when you can’t.
Stay well, we’re getting close to a vaccine. And I’m ready to get back to my life-as-it-was.
