Happy Labor Day! The national holiday came about as an actual day of contrition by Congress for murdered striking railroad workers, although a union, the Knights of Labor, had been organizing celebrations before the Pullman Strike, along with the Central Labor Union.
Every day we have outrage after outrage against the U.S. worker and middle class. There is so much economic injustice, it's hard to keep up. Yet some stories are so outrageous you'll swear out loud and scare the dog. Such is the story of McDonald's workers being paid by debit cards instead of checks, forced to do so. An McDonald's ex-employee just sued over it:
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