Looking at Labor Day as more then a day off

I pray that all of you have enjoyed your labor day weekend. Wild Bill has talked in the past of how he is pro union labor.  Did you know that organized labor started at a time when big business and goverment stood against the common worker? Imagrants flooded to this country for freedom.  During the industrial revolution a adult man could earn approx $1 a day but the same job could be done by a child for only 10 cents a day.  There were no limitations on work hours, wages, or working conditions. There is much history on where the employer would change your rate of pay after you had already completed the work!  Ready labor history and see how people were treated that would walk off of their jobs and get others to do the same.  People were arrested, shot, beat to death, and their names would be put on a no hire list for all companies in that city. Their homes were even burned and family members were targeted by police and armed thugs that the company would hire.  If a worker was killed in a coal mine in the early days.  The company would take the body to their home and place it on the front porch.  If they had been blown up, the body would be placed in a bucket and put on their front porch.  The family had one day to send someone else from that home to work in the mine, or move.  They were forced to pay rent that changed all of the time and many were paid script instead of money.  This could only be used at the company store, or for your rent in your company owned home.  Company store prices were much higher then other stores.   We all have the early labor movement to thank for 40 hour work week, time off, benefits and safety protections.  But the labor unions are now under attack with laws, and suffer from bad management too.  As always we open up the microphones at the end of this show to hear your opinions.