It’s a shame they don’t teach in school just how hard unions and the workers of America had to fight to get the rights we think of as default today.
They went to literal war with their companies and the government multiple times. Look up the Coal Wars, look up the Haymarket affair, look up Matewan, look up Lucy Parsons. We have a long history of worker’s rights, but since WW2 the ruling capitalists learned not to give the working class too many ideas to get too uppity.
We are well overdue for this kind of activity again.
There is a reason they don’t teach it.
They don’t want it to happen again.
I find it “funny” that most of the world celebrates labor/workers day on May 1st to commemorate the Chicago protest to fight for 8-hour shifts and workers rights but in the US they don’t even talk about it.
Labor Day in the US was chosen kinda arbitrarily to fall between independence Day and Thanksgiving Day