Labor Day used to be a purpose-inspired passion for celebrating the honored place for working men and women in our country. Historically, labor unions played an important role in elevating workers into the middle class and changing the income inequality of the Golden Age.
Now that we are back into the worst economic inequality since that Golden Age, and labor unions have lost the political clout they once had, Labor Day seems just another excuse for partying on a long weekend.
Let's keep this in mind today what the labor movement has meant to this country and ask why they no longer have much power. Is it because, having achieved big goals, they are no longer needed? Or have corporate interests and power taken away their clout, as in any other fight for control -- and the corporate interests have won? They had some help from the Supreme Court in recent years, a court known as one of the most business-friendly ever.
I tend to think it's the latter. Or, if it was the former, it's no longer true. We need a renewed strength in a group that stands up for workers, for Main Street against Wall Street.
Think about that, and have a good holiday.
Ralph
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