Don’t Forget How We Got Here

March 04, 2008

You’ve heard the union slogan, ‘the folks that brought you the weekend.’ Well, the labor movement has helped make possible not just a few days off, but a wide range of benefits and rights that we all too often take for granted. A clever blog post illustrates what unions and their allies have done through the eyes of an average guy somewhere in America. It’s worth a read:

Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised. All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry. …

Real the full story at Union Review.