Labour Day Weekend's Catsup

Gotta' have some sauce for your week and since I couldn't get here on the weekend I thought I'd pile on an extra big plate of burgers and fries and some kind of pie links and vids for your news ingesting pleasure. Most importantly it was Labour Day so let's beg the question, "What have unions ever done for us?"

Really wanted to send out good wishes and happy Labour Day thoughts to all who come by and hope for a time when labour won't be marginalized and the value of unions denigrated by our greedy and blood-thirsty capitalist overlords. From Billy Bragg, Power In A Union:

And bonus Billy Bragg:

I'm weary of people with short memories who don't know how the middle-class in North America came to be so well off, we have the unions to thank. Listen to what Obama has to say: 

Please if you enjoyed this drop me a note to tell me -- there's lots of links and stories to come today so I don't want this post getting lost in the shuffle. Cheers for now!