Celebrate Labor day If...

If you work for a living, and you get a pay check every week and you don't have to work every day for it you're pro Union.  Because the American Labor Movement are the folks that brought you, "The Weekend".

If you work for a living, and your CHILDREN DON'T until they are no longer children, you're pro Union.  Because the Labor Movement put an end to child labor.

If you work in a dangerous job like coal mining or law enforcement and your employer had to buy your safety equipment and bullet proof vest and has to pay to have you inoculated against Hepatitis, you're pro Union.  Because without Labor Unions, they would have told you that if you want that shit?  Go buy it yourself.

If you make minimum wage and you're glad to have it.  You're pro Union.  Because without the Unions and their support for Democrats, you would get paid what ever the Koch Brothers thought they could get away with.

If you've ever been hurt on the job and been paid while you recover, you're pro Union.  Because without the Unions, you'd have been sent home to get better on your own, with no health insurance and when you did get better?  Someone else might have your job.

If you like all the safety features that keep you from falling out of your forklift or bucket truck, or make sure the floors aren't slippery in your slaughter house or gas station where you work, you're pro Union.  Because without Unions, none of that shit would be done VOLUNTARILY by your employer.

If you have EVER taken a PAID Holiday, and been glad to have it, you are pro Union.  Because business men think Christmas is a, "Poor excuse for picking a mans pocket once a year".  Ask Charles Dickens.  And he's MUCH older than the AFL/CIO.

If you like guns, like I do, you're pro Union.  Because a guy in The Machinists Union made yours.  And mine, too.

If you like American, German or Japanese cars, you're pro Union.  Because a Union member made yours.  Guilds were started in Germany and they still exist.  The Japanese have unions.  And despite the best efforts of the Republicans, we still have the Auto Workers Union in this country.

But since we don't have a national health care plan like they do in Germany, or Japan, or Canada, our Unions can't build my Audi or even my, Camaro.  The Camaro is made in Canada!  How fucked up is that, America?  OUR muscle car is made in Canada.  By Union workers.

If you work for a city, county, state or the Federal government, you're pro Union.  Because if you're not?  You'd be working for $9 a hour because that's what politicians think the top end of the salary scale should be for you.  According to a Utah Legislator from Cache County in the 90's when we were trying to get an increase in pay for Prison Officers.

If you like the fact that we have prisons and police officers and fire fighters and paramedics who respond when you call, you're pro Union.  Because if it were NOT for collective bargaining agreements in OTHER states that insure a living wage and safe working conditions for them, because they have to be competitive here, no one would take that job in Utah!

And if you like the fact that you don't have to PAY for a private school.  And that you have a choice to NOT send your kid to some private, Charter/LDS (and in this state, don't kid yourself, they are the SAME THING) school?  YOU are PRO UNION!  Because if it were not for the Teachers Union, you would have the Ogden School District.  Which last week named a Lawyer to run it.  He has no education in Education, but he's connected, and they are trying to destroy their Teachers Union, so he's the right guy.

Every time you fasten a seat belt?  You're pro Union.  If it's at work. 

Every time you punch in your time card, and the clock reads the right time?  You're pro Union.

Now, that being said.  If you collect a pay check and work for an hourly wage and you're a Republican?  You're an idiot.

If you work for a living, you're a Democrat.  Because you're pro Union.

If you vote based on abortion or gun control and vote for Republicans?  You're a moron.  Because neither of those issues is going to change.  But your economic self  interest is.  And only the Democrats have it in THERE interest.

Lets face it.  The Republicans have controlled the the Congress, the Senate, the Presidency and the Supreme Court for MOST of the time since the Row V. Wade decision in 1973.  Have they changed it?  Of course not!  They need the issue to be there, so they can keep promising they WILL change it, so you vote for them.  Bullshit.  They have been fooling you for ages.

But if you vote on THAT, or gun control?  They get your vote and keep dismantling Labor Law!  The rich get richer, and the poor keep supporting them in it!  Bonus, Koch Brothers!

So this Labor Day, lets celebrate, Labor!  The working man/woman!  Unions!  All the things that kept this country from becoming Soviet Russia, with a few people in charge of the means of production, and the political system.

Oh, wait.  Too late.  We have that here, now!  And it's NOT the fault of the scary Black President!  It's the fault of the rich white guys!

Happy Labor Day.  To all you smart people who get it.