Matt Friesen » Labour Day http://mattfriesen.com Part Time Entrepreneur, Full Time Dreamer Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:41:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Labour Day is an Oxymoron http://mattfriesen.com/is-thinking-labour-day-is-an-oxymoron/ http://mattfriesen.com/is-thinking-labour-day-is-an-oxymoron/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:42:18 +0000 Matt http://mattfriesen.com/?p=71 Let me start off by saying as a business owner, I have a love/hate relationship with stat holidays. I appreciate the value of extra recharge time, but business keeps on ticking…


Anyway, this particular holiday doesn’t sit well with me. The name indicates a celebration of work, but thanks to the drones of Wikipedia, it turns out the birth of Labour Day in Canada was a parade supporting a strike by the Toronto Typographical Union. Through a series of subsequent events, this parade helped lead to a repeal of the anti-union laws.


Given that history, shouldn’t the name be something more like Union Day or Strike Day? I suppose naming a holiday after the negotiation tactic of a three year old doesn’t really make sense…. or does it?


Happy Strike Day Everyone!


On Strike: The negotiation tactic of a three year old.

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