Why Labor Day is Important... image heavy

[w8liftinglady]

Colbert had an AWESOME tribute
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/60260/march-14-2006/was-it-really-that-bad----before-unions










The Day before The Triangle Shirtwaist factory Fire


The day after it




Solidarity to all!

[hobbit709]

1. If I hear a single repuke say anything today I will scream STFU at him.

[Sherman A1]

2. K&R

:kick:

[Brickbat]

3. This picture is always the one that gets me.

[CanonRay]

12. Remembering my Grandmother

born in 1898, who as a young woman fought to establish a Ladies Garment Worker local in Milwaukee.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. That's going up on my UFT Bulletin Board tomorrow.

Assuming I can figure out a way to print it out.

Thanks, Lady.

[Fearless]

5. K&R!

[Omaha Steve]

6. The two bottom images are from the Triangle Shirtwaist fire

K&R!

Never thought it would happen again.

September 2, 1991 - Twenty-five workers were killed when a fire broke out at the nonunion Imperial Foods poultry processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. The plant’s fire exit doors were illegally locked and blocked, leaving the workers no escape. The 11-year-old plant had never once been inspected by federal or state safety and health officials. Eerily reminiscent of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire 80 years before, the Hamlet tragedy brought renewed calls for stronger enforcement of workplace safety laws.

For more on the Hamlet fire, visit http://www.organicanews.com/news/article.cfm?story_id=103 and http://www.etext.org/Politics/AlternativeOrange/1/v1n1_lda.html

[Oceansaway]

7. thanks...n/t...K&R...

[w0nderer]

8. k&r n/t

[fasttense]

9. Except for the last picture you really don't see the most seriously damaged victims.

The children and adults who lost their fingers, toes, feet, hands, arms, legs and lives from factory machines and no safety codes. The injured were immediately fired and received no free medical care. During the height of the Industrial Revolution, there were so many people missing limbs that one journalist commented that when he walked around a working class section of a city it was like looking at a war zone. So many people had limbs missing it reminded the writer of casualties after a war.

Unions stopped this sort of abuse and RepubliCONS want us to return to those days.

[Scuba]

10. One more...

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[TBF]

11. Solidarity nt