Labor Day is a celebration of the American worker — the person whose productivity and skill made this country great. It is a distinctly American practice to celebrate workers in their own right for this reason in the fall, not in the context of socialism on May 1.
Today, the American workforce is evolving in a new direction, in large part thanks to workers' ingenuity. The traditional employment relationship, though still dominant, has long been fraying at the edges due to increasing worker mobility between jobs. But today, it is under an especially intense assault from the gig economy. An estimated 36% of American workers participate in the gig economy for part or all of their income, and more than 90% say they are at least considering it.
Democrats need to start thinking more of workers and less of union bosses, because the interests of the two are clearly diverging. One of their major problems is that fair working conditions and labor standards are taken for granted and guaranteed by government. It made more sense to clamor for a union in 1922, when your workplace was appallingly filthy and dangerous; not so much in 2022, when thousands of government regulations govern safe and clean working conditions. Another problem they face is that workers increasingly value their independence over the steady security of a union job they work for 50 years.
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