Celebrating May Day, all right

Yes, you can bet a lot of us are celebrating "May Day", May 1 today. But it's not just all about the flowers and Springtime.

This is the May Day we're celebrating:

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36 Reasons Why You Should Thank a Union (even if you don't belong to one):

-Weekends

-All Breaks at Work, including your Lunch Breaks

-Paid Vacation 

-FMLA

-Sick Leave

-Social Security

-Minimum Wage

-Civil Rights Act/Title VII (Prohibits Employer Discrimination)

-8-Hour Work Day

-Overtime Pay

-Child Labor Laws

-Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)

-40 Hour Work Week

-Worker’s Compensation (Worker’s Comp)

-Unemployment Insurance

-Pensions

-Workplace Safety Standards and Regulations

-Employer Health Care Insurance

-Collective Bargaining Rights for Employees

-Wrongful Termination Laws

-Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

-Whistleblower Protection Laws

-Employee Polygraph Protect Act (Prohibits Employer from using a lie detector test on an employee)

-Veteran’s Employment and Training Services (VETS)

-Compensation increases and Evaluations (Raises)

-Sexual Harassment Laws

-Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

-Holiday Pay

-Employer Dental, Life, and Vision Insurance

-Privacy Rights

-Pregnancy and Parental Leave

-Military Leave

-The Right to Strike

-Public Education for Children

-Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 (Requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work)

-Laws Ending Sweatshops in the United States

Via AFL-CIO --> http://bit.ly/R6QxXd

Throwback Thursday

Remember when?   Are you old enough?

Roy Blunt? Come clean?

"Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

So here's hoping.


Have a great weekend, y'all.