Happy May Day/International Labour Day

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01 May 2009, 2:04 am

^ What that says.

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01 May 2009, 5:12 am

It's time for the annual bonfire! :wink:

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01 May 2009, 5:51 am

No Labour day in The Netherlands. It is a normal working day. But I took the day off to have a long weekend after Queens day (April 30th)

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01 May 2009, 10:57 am

personally i think theres to many holidays. all the important ones like christmas, and halloween are already coverd so why should i celebrate this one? although, if it involves candy&gifts im all for it :wink:

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01 May 2009, 11:01 am

workers day is NOT another new and commercial gift-day, SHAME on all the youngsters who assume it to be so.

i heard teens on the bus the other day, go "what? 1st of may is a hollyday? why? it has never been that before. is this something new?"
i wanted to get up and yell them the hell out.

its probably THE LAST "serious" holyday left in the western world, the ONLY day thats not CORRUPTED by GIFTS AND COMMERCIALISM.

now, its one step away from becoming another garbage-day w little cards and s**t, and peoples ignorance is pushing it towards that. allready stupid dumbass norwegian teens are using this day as a party-day, because theyre CLUELESS as to what its about.

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06 Sep 2010, 6:54 pm

Happy Labour Day!

(today is Labour Day in the USA, although most of us spell it "Labor", which is less labourious to spell without the "u").

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07 Sep 2010, 2:54 am

Happy belated Labor day. May those rest in peace.

Wikipedia wrote:

Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September (September 6 in 2010).

The first Labor Day in the United States was observed on September 5, 1882 in New York City, by the Central Labor Union of New York, the nation's first integrated major trade union.[1] It became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with the labor movement as a top political priority. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.[2] The September date originally chosen by the CLU of NY and observed by many of the nation's trade unions for the past several years was selected rather than the more widespread International Workers' Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair, for which it had been observed to commemorate.[3] All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories had made it a stautory holiday.

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07 Sep 2010, 3:53 am

We in Australia don't have labour day till 4th October.

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07 Sep 2010, 8:58 am

Is that the same sort of thing as a bank holiday?

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07 Sep 2010, 9:20 pm

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Happy May Day/International Labour Day

umm it's the month of September here in the US; NOT May.
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07 Sep 2010, 11:19 pm

Happy belated Labour Day.

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08 Sep 2010, 1:41 am

vive la revolution

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