4/28/2011
By Doug Cunningham
Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be the epicenter of May Day rallies expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people nationwide. Workers from all walks of life in America will join in solidarity from California to Wisconsin and beyond, rallying and marching with progressive allies commemorating the legacy of May Day. It will be a protest against the assaults on worker rights and a call to fix America’s broken immigration system. Students and churches are joining workers and political progressives in the rallies. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka will join the Milwaukee rally Sunday – ground zero for the defense of worker rights. Trumka says this year all working people are standing strong together to show the world that the fights for worker rights and immigrant rights are “cut of the same cloth”. Trumka says working people will speak with one voice on May Day to fight for better wages and benefits, job security and safer workplaces for everybody.
By Doug Cunningham
Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be the epicenter of May Day rallies expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people nationwide.
Workers from all walks of life in America will join in solidarity from California to Wisconsin and beyond, rallying and marching with progressive allies commemorating the legacy of May Day.
It will be a protest against the assaults on worker rights and a call to fix America’s broken immigration system. Students and churches are joining workers and political progressives in the rallies.
AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka will join the Milwaukee rally Sunday – ground zero for the defense of worker rights. Trumka says this year all working people are standing strong together to show the world that the fights for worker rights and immigrant rights are “cut of the same cloth”.
Trumka says working people will speak with one voice on May Day to fight for better wages and benefits, job security and safer workplaces for everybody.
Trumka says working people will speak with one voice on May Day to fight for better wages and benefits, job security and safer workplaces for everybody.
The next "Labor Day" in the US will be September 5 in 2011.
According to Wikipedia, The first Labor Day in the United States was observed on August 26, 1878, in Boston, by the Central Labor Union of New York.
Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike.
Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.
The point is what we called labor Day is the US celebrates a huge labor defeat in Chicago. The International Labor Day on May 1 is the real labor day.
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