Where we stand
“I’ve been a union man since I was a union boy, and I will be a union man until the day I die. If you’re here to shit on the workers of the world, or to make excuses for someone who is currently doing that, go fuck yourself and don’t come back.”
Latest history · Gilded Age
Haymarket 1886: They Hanged Four Men for a Bomb Nobody Proved They Threw
A bomb went off at a peaceful rally for the eight-hour day. The state put eight labor organizers on trial, convicted them without evidence, and hanged four of them. The rest of the world made May Day.
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This week · 2026-W17
Why Overtime Pay Exists
Overtime pay isn't a bonus. It's a fine levied against employers for trying to work you past forty hours a week, and it exists because working people fought for fifty years to make it expensive to kill them.
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