The labour movement arose out of the collective action of workers who said “No, we are not going to take it any more.
For many people, it is the end of summer and the beginning of fall. Certainly, it marks the usual return to school, college, and university for students of all ages.
For thousands of years, people worked for a master, be it a lord, king, duke, chieftain or some other authority figure. The feudal system divided up the countryside into realms and each was ruled by a hereditary leader. People within the realm worked almost exclusively for the master. The exceptions were craftsmen who formed guilds. But they still worked at the pleasure of the lord.
But those running businesses are not the ones doing the work. Indeed, as the television show Undercover Boss demonstrated, many CEOs would be fired if doing the work done by the average worker in their company. It is the workers that make companies work. We want to be treated fairly. We want employers to treat us as valued employees and not disposable pieces of a machine.”
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