Anyone who works for a living is part of the working class and bullshit like this only strengthens capitals grip by pitting workers against workers.
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If you punch a clock to pay your bills, you're working class. Don't let them turn us against each other.
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The international worker's day is a holiday in france, so everyone can go protest (or do whatever at home, but there are usually big protests on may 1st)
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I see no point in trying to pit us against each other. People with normal desk jobs aren't inherently the problem.
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I wish it were like Christmas Day, where almost every business is ACTUALLY closed.
I don't celebrate, so this isn't nostalgia for Christmas magic or whatever.
I just like that it's a day that no matter what, for the most part, you're on your own. Forgot to buy groceries? Scrounge the cupboard. Forgot to fill the gas tank? You're staying home. Faucet leaking? Turn off the water, wash your hands in a different sink, call the plumber(or go to the hardware store) tomorrow. Ain't NOTHING getting done today.
It's the only day where the majority of people in areas where the holiday is celebrated, all agree that ain't nobody doing anything that day.
Granted there's lots of caveats. Some businesses are open by choice, some by necessity. I used to work at a nursing home, that's gotta stay open, me and a few coworkers would volunteer to take the holiday shifts.
These days I'm still blue collar, but I do have most big holidays off.
But if you thought some random gas station or grocery store was gonna be open so you can pop in on Christmas? No dice.
Why isn't labour Day that way?
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My boss handles everyone a chocolate bar
"Thank you guys for yo hard labor. Happy labor day"
Everyone gotta get back to labor after that.
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Don't put workers against workers.
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Guess my kid's elementary school teacher has a fake email job too.
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Office jobs are still jobs. If a business genuinely was wasting vast amounts of money on fake work, then these jobs would be eliminated already. They are gradually being automated away, same as physical labor, but they still exist because they are still important for production.
The target of your ire should not be this or that subsection of the working class, but instead the capitalist class.
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PSA, Labour day is the first of may.
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The warehouse I work at gets Labor Day off every year.
Then the week after they basically have the grill going for 5 days straight for Employee Appreciation Week.
It's pretty nice.
Sometimes.
White collar jobs are still jobs. If you have to trade hours of your life to afford the things you need to live you are part of the working class... That's why it's called the working class and not the blue collar class.
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Ignoring factory and warehouse workers as per usual
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it's curious that the US does not observe it in that day since the events that commemorates it happened in Chicago, during a series of protests for a 8 hour work day.
But of course, that is not accident. They put a lot of effort in framing workers' movements as a communist plot. At one point they even instituted a "loyalty day" on 1st of May to counteract any labour movement.
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someone unironically told me yesterday 'you must be so busy with everyone off!'
I WAS busy, nothing changed on my end compared to every other Monday of the year. which is basically I'm given a job that's too much for one person, but I struggle to get help so often than even getting my legally required breaks can be like pulling teeth.
anyway I just said 'except for me! (:' and she didn't say anything else after that.
it's like these people forget that we too are humans working behind the counter. People that are WORKING on LABOR day.
Just because our cage is slightly nicer and we get fed slightly better slop doesn't mean we're not in this together.
Most of us are sticking with you ... the real problem is the 1%
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Americans will attack other workers for minor differences in lifestyle rather than attack their boss for failing to provide basic quality of life in exchange for full time work.
Just like the ruling class wants...
I was called a essential worker during COVID and had to work every single day but throughout COVID and all this time post-COVID I haven't gotten a single raise. How can my job be essential but not worth anything?
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