Discussion: Workers, Labor Activists Mark May Day With Defiant Rallies Worldwide

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The May Day workers holiday was invented here in the Good Ol’ USA. It’s as American as baseball, apple pie and selling arms to repressive regimes worldwide, er, I mean Chevrolet. Most people don’t know this because they stopped teaching labor history in school decades ago.

https://iww.org/history/library/misc/origins_of_mayday

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Eww, unions!

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Pretty lame that this AP article makes no mention whatsoever about May Day events in the United States. For example:

http://abc7ny.com/politics/may-day-protests-in-nyc-focus-on-immigration-rights/3412924/