Being open on Thanksgiving is not a crime against Labor

[Cleita]

8. It's to remind us that greed has no limits of decency.

Used to be that only essential services, hospitals, police, fire departments etc. operated on Thanksgiving. Mostly the workers were paid time and a half or even double time for working. Usually, they volunteered and if not, it was the workers with the least seniority who were scheduled. Maybe there weren't laws but there were rules that were followed by the business community which in those days recognized that most people including the managers wanted to be home with their families.

Then greed started to seep in first with football games being played on Thanksgiving. Well those people were few and most got the day off and the rest were well paid, except the stadium workers but who cared about them and they got to be at game!

Now it's just pure greed and nobody benefits except Wall Street. If shoppers don't boycott this new "tradition" next there just won't be any holiday at all or days off or a limit on the number of hours one must work to keep their job in the future. We are losing all the labor rights we gained in the twentieth century and going back to the days of labor abuses of the industrial revolution that Dickens wrote about so eloquently.