The battles that birthed these labor holidays united native-born and immigrant workers in an extraordinary alliance to demand an eight-hour workday at a time when American workers toiled an average of 10 or more hours daily, six days a week.
People confuse essential workers with workers who can be exploited,” Bibiana Gonzalez, a child care provider noted. “They want to toss these workers in the street just for being immigrants,” said Voces de la Frontera organizer Pablo Rodriguez.
Argentine junta benefited from cooperation with right-wing Israeli governments. Unlike Hamas, it continued to benefit from those governments in the form of weapons/training, even after it was known that these weapons were being used to murder Jews.
"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back.
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