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| You can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ to the union |
You can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ to the union.
Happy Labor Day, the US Congress’ alternative to May Day. The politicians believed that May Day, which originated here in Chicago, had too rough and militant a content to it. And it had too many Reds involved. However, Labor Day has its roots in Chicago as well. As Paul Krugman points out in today’s NY Times Op-Ed page: Here’s how it happened: In 1894 Pullman workers, facing wage cuts in the wak
9-1-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Labor Day Weekend reads. Why is Teach For America sending its teachers on Israel junkets? What would Muhammad do? A rebutall to Obama’s war argument. The continuing chaos in Rahm’s Chicago. They call us Chiraq. Rahm’s De Paul basketball arena? I swear I will never step foot in the joint. You make tha