The History of the LABOR Movement is being erased from our nation's History Books. [View all]

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I went to Elementary School in the 50s, and High School in the early 60s.
The Labor Movement & The New Deal was an important CHAPTER of "American History".

I had a conversation with a young, intelligent, "Straight A" High School Junior who claimed "History" as her "2nd Favorite Subject" last Labor Day, at a Labor Day Picnic.
She had no clue about the Labor Movement. She had never heard of it, and didn't know WHAT I was talking about.
She had been taught in her school that it was the "Entrepreneurial Spirit" that built America, and that UNIONS were bad, though she didn't know exactly why they were bad.
I was stunned.

New Report Finds High School Textbooks Ignore Or Distort The Role Of Labor Unions In American History

On Monday, America celebrated Labor Day, which is set aside to honor American laborers and their unions. Yet a new report from the American Federation of Teachers’ (AFT) Albert Shanker Institute titled “American Labor in U.S. History Textbooks: How Labor’s Story is Distorted in High School History Textbooks” finds that America’s high school students are not being properly taught about the contributions of organized labor to American history."

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/07/313270/history-textbooks-labor-unions/

Not too long ago, The Labor Movement was Honored & Cherished as a proud tradition of the modern Democratic Party, and was credited with the tremendous advancements of the American Working Class over the last century.
Sadly, this is no longer true, and the history of The Labor Movement hardly get a mention from today's Party Leadership as the memory of these heroes fade along with those Hard Earned Worker's Rights.


Our grandfathers and their Fathers shed BLOOD to gain these rights for ALL Working Americans.
I was taught to honor and protect these hard earned RIGHTS.
It hurts to see these RIGHTS denigrated and thrown away,
and the history of their hard fought battles flushed "down the Memory Hole",
replaced with the myth of an "Invisible Hand" and rumors of something called a "Free Market".
[font size=1](How did they EVER pull off THAT scam?)[/font]

I am ashamed of the World we are leaving to our young.
They WILL have to fight these same battles all over again.



You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]