Happy International Worker's Day from France, where I have the full day off work as a holiday. It began after workers in the US started a general strike for the eight-hour workday on May 1st, 1886 that culminated with the Haymarket massacre. The date of May 1st as a day to celebrate the labor movement was exported to Europe and other countries, but some politicians in the US thought the date would serve as a rallying point for leftist and labor movements, so they moved Labor Day to September.
