💸💪🏾Moneda Moves (07): ¡Si Se Puede!
Happy post-Labor Day to all and a special hat tip to those laboring yesterday -- we see you. 🎩
Most countries celebrate El Día del Trabajador on May 1, also known as May Day, but the United States recognizes the holiday at the top of September. 🇺🇸Why? Several articles cite the reason as the original date's relationship to the bombing of Haymarket Square and American concern over anarchists and socialists. On May 1, 1886, Chicago workers, many who were immigrants, walked out of their jobs in large numbers to demand an eight-hour work day. At a labor rally in the same location three days later, a bomb exploded and killed 11 people. In Europe, socialist and labor parties adopted the date several years later as a day to honor the "Haymarket martyrs," per Fortune. The U.S., however, was not as eager to call attention to May 1. While May Day rallies still take place on this date, President Grover Cleveland called for the first Monday in September Labor Day. This was the date celebrated by more moderate trade unionists, per IBT.
And whether you celebrate May Day, Labor Day, or both, it is as good a time as any to recognize some of the figures that helped advance labor movements in the U.S. Two that come to mind are the co-founders of the United Farm Workers Movement and Chicanx, Dolores Huerta and César Chávez. Founded in 1962, UFW set on a mission to protect farmworkers and address issues such as "worker protections, pesticides and immigration reform" according to UFW.org. You may have heard the rallying cry of the farm workers' campaign: Yes, we can!
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Con poder,
Lyanne
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Thanks for reading! How well do you know la historia and meaning behind Labor Day? Take The New York Times' quiz and see how stack up. 📚