Times Editorial : Appreciation day
Today, it's time to applaud the country's workforce
Posted: September 7, 2009 at 6:58 a.m.
Odds are you already knew this, but in case you didn't, we'll say it: Today is Labor Day. Still, is everything this three-day weekend represents truly meaningful in the minds of today's workforce? After all, to most people, Labor Day is little more than a poor man's Memorial Day, a welcome occasion that makes room for college football games, cookouts and sleeping in. By comparison, people don't spend the day pondering whether they ought to unionize; they don't pour over the latest Labor Department statistics that reveal the American economy lost another 216,000 jobs in August, and that unemployment continues to rise at a bitter clip. Instead, people do what people do. They relax. They go fishing. They go see a movie.
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Opinion, Pages 4 on 09/07/2009
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