Happy May Day! Workers of the World Unite? / myLot

United States

May 1, 2016 7:24am CST

Today is May Day, International Labor Day, and the most important Socialist holiday of the year. Do you believe in the global free flow of labor at equivalent wages? Do you think this would help bring about greater cooperation among nations?

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502653)

• Italy

1 May 16

Today here in Europe we celebrate the "International Workers' Day". May Day most of the time is a focal point for demonstrations by various socialist, communist and anarchist groups, even if far less than in the past years.

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@allknowing (153529)

• India

2 May 16

Here labour is meant for those who have not entered the portal of a school. These days everyone goes to school and the impact of this is felt in that we hardly find any labourers around a disaster for households who need them. We do recognise May 1 as Labour Day

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

2 May 16

The devaluation of certain occupations troubles me. I was raised to believe that any work is honest work as long as the person doing the work does it to the best of his/her ability. Now, in many countries, some jobs are considered as being "beneath" a person. The problem is that in the US, people, especially women with illegitimate children, can make more in government assistance than they can working for a living at some jobs.

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@allknowing (153529)

• India

2 May 16

@DWDavis You will find this classification only here and at the same time they are ready to clean toilets in foreign countries and then even graduates do not hesitate to take on such jobs.

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

3 May 16

@allknowing It is indeed a sad irony.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

2 May 16

Now that's an idea I hadn't heard before and intriguing. I'm sure it would change a lot of things if there were equivalent wages on a global level.

John Roberts

@JohnRoberts (109841)

• Los Angeles, California

1 May 16

What's funny is the Socialists in this country are for not working at all and getting a government check to fund their funemployment. To them, Labor Day? What's that? A world free flow of wages etc as usual depends on the US supporting it all. Even China depends on our consumerism. They have felt the ill effects of our economic woes as buying their crap has gone down.

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

2 May 16

I love your term funemployment as it so accurately describes so many of the younger generation of this country. Far too many of them think the world only exists to entertain them and that someone else will always be willing to pick up the tab.

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