Like so many things, Unions were started for a very good reason and they were needed because big employers were ripping off employees and treating them like private property. Then along came Unions and things changed Unions made the big Employers change their ways and treat people right. And then Unions became to big and became worst than the big employers they were fighting and even worst they got into bed with trash like Obama and they started screwing over people even worst than employers and just when you thought it couldn’t get worst the Unions were taken over by CRIMINALS and then along came Obama the biggest crook yet, he replaced all the N L R B with Union Criminals so they could screw the workers even more.He is also letting criminal Unions force employer to give name addresses, phone numbers and E mail address so Union member can abuse and beat workers into joining their criminal unions he also wants no more secret vote for or against the Unions so Union Thugs like Hoffa can go after the workers. Look at the way the Head Union Thug introdruced the U S A’s head thug [Obama] and Obama grinning from ear to ear ignores what the head Union Criminal said, since he agrees with another criminal like him! We need to run all appointed Czars Muslims everyone Obama appointed to anything and for sure the high court and N L R B with Eric Holder, Pelosie, Reid, Rev. Wright, Nation of Islam, Sara Brady and all immoral people who don’t keep their sex habits [ no matter which they are] in their own bed room where it belongs, Oh and for sure all the gutless Joint chiefs of staff!

Labor day. Is that a communist holiday?
You decide if the idea was really to celebrate hard workers why didn’t they pick the men started businessess that put people to work. Had we remained a nation of farmers as Jefferson envisioned we wouldn’t be playing politics with how people make their living and how hard they work.

President Cleveland saw communist influences in the “labor movement” and justifiably so since the original name for Labor Day was to be International Workers’ Day >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_day

Maybe it’s good we just observe that day by roasting winnies on the grill at the beach? Best to ignore all that “workers of the world unite” baloney.

Yes! We need to eliminate labor day and replace it with a return of civil fights day , that is if we ever get our civil rigts back . Between Bushes patriot act and Obams bu—-it actions we are suffering a real deficit , and no I’m not talking money .

Labor Day does not mean union, it is likely where ever there is no jobs, labor unrest and destructive demonstrations, you can bet in this day and age unions are involved. What we need is a government with no unionized labor and for that government to get off the backs of the free market, private sector and stop practicing cronyism within our industry, repeal much of this useless regulation, taxes and stop the strangulation of capitalism, the kind we have practiced for over 200 years….give us back our civil liberties and rights.

The poor working class, they get screwed by thier bosses and the souless corporations, and then they organize and get screwed by their union bosses. Its a tough bind to be in. Having been in a union that sent all my dues to the democrats in D.C. and out of the Union, I’ll throw my hopes at the feet of my employers. Granted the Unions did get a few things for the working class during the last century, but having access to all that pension money and the union dues has been a little too tempting to most of the Union leadership and they have become less trustworthy than a companies CEO that needs workers and has learned to treat them well in order to get the most productivity out of them.

Why don’t we repeal all the things that the unions have given us? Two day weekend, lunch hours, 15minute breaks, health care, overtime, anti-discrimination rules, vacations, safety rules in the workplace, 40 hour work week, just to name a few, should all be abolished. Let’s go back to the time when we didn’t have any rights. Here’s hoping that you conservative repeal everything that protects the workers, and everyone works 80 hours a week. So looking forward to a future like that!

My thoughts exactly.

When I was a kid, we did take time to pause and think about a day of leizure. Now with obama and the union’s targeting of the TP–really, not even a political party–that day has mud on it. This year it may be the beginning of blood day if the unions keep promoting violence.

Celebrating the unions is like celebrating organized crime.Come to think of it, our government could be included in this comparison, at least many of the “officials”, both elected and appointed who “serve ” by wheeling and dealing, intimidation and deception.