As a child of a longtime [ @UFCW770] union member, I would not be where I am if my mother hadn& #39;t been able to secure health insurance for our family through her union job. So #LaborDay is an important holiday for me.

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And as the granddaughter of a seamstress who labored in US sweatshops, not unlike the nearly 150 immigrant women & children who died in Manhattan’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911...

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(the owners locked them in the building in a fire & were later acquitted of any wrong doing because, among other reasons, no labor laws existed to protect workers& #39; rights), I feel the weight of the lives that were lost to give us even the most basic of humane working conditions;

...ie weekends & 8 hr work days (tho those rights are being eroded again now).

This #LaborDay tho, I& #39;m struck by the myriad of people "winning" at business while failing abysmally at being human.

It& #39;s almost as if...the way we& #39;re doing "business" isn& #39;t conducive to being human.

My #LaborDay2020/ #COVIDー19 take away?

We& #39;re not meant to hoard, we& #39;re built to share & to give. And all the material things we& #39;re working so hard to accumulate, WE CANNOT F&%$ING TAKE WITH US.

So, we may as well leave empty.

#SundayMorning #Buildercapitalists

One way to do that + honor the fallen laborers, is to follow & support the important work of activists fighting to end inhumane working conditions, like @aijenpoo @MonicaRamirezOH & @SaruJayaraman.

& as @JosephNSanberg reminds us daily, it& #39;s 2020 we should have a $25 min wage!