{"id":10266,"date":"2006-09-04T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/09\/04\/10266.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:15","slug":"today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/09\/04\/today\/","title":{"rendered":"Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One thing that&#8217;s frustrating about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/09\/20060901-1.html\">Labor Day<\/a> is the absence of labor, that is, of trade unions, from the day. Our Only President, in his perfunctory message, pointedly addresses workers as individuals, rather than as part of a movement. He also fails to talk about the history of Labor, of the struggle that is commemorated and engaged in today. Our Last President was somewhat better, saying things like <a href=\"http:\/\/clinton6.nara.gov\/1996\/08\/1996-08-30-greetings-to-americans-for-labor-day.html\">Labor Day is an opportunity to recognize those who began the fight to improve working conditions and labor laws for Americans, as well as those who continue to ensure dignity in the workplace, integrity in our society, and honor in the global marketplace.<\/a> But even our pro-business Democrat was wont to talk about labor either in terms of history or in terms of a partnership between business and labor, or business, labor and government.\n<p>This is not a day to celebrate business. You want a Business Day? Fine, proclaim one. But today is Samuel Gompers Day, today is Dolores Huerta day, today is Harry Bridges Day, today is Lucy Parsons Day, today is Andy Stern Day, today is Walter Reuther Day, today is George Meaney Day, today is Mother Jones Day, today is John J. Sweeney Day, today is John Wilhelm Day, today is John Gage Day, today is today is Gerald McEntee Day, today is Reg Weaver Day. Kiss a union worker for me.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that\u2019s frustrating about Labor Day is the absence of labor, that is, of trade unions, from the day. Our Only President, in his perfunctory message, pointedly addresses workers as individuals, rather than as part of a movement. He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17797,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/17797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}