Labor Day 2023

The speaker mentions celebrating Labor Day and supporting local unions. They discuss the importance of unions in ensuring that products are built correctly and the role of unions in the history of the US, particularly in the lumber industry. They also express a desire for more products to be made in the USA and emphasize the hard work of workers in various industries. The speaker ends by wishing everyone a happy Labor Day and asking for the whereabouts of Local 174. 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Good morning. I went downtown for support of my local 900. And, uh, very, like, one of my best friends, dear friends, I got very few best friends. And this one, she's part of Local 174. You don't know what it is? It doesn't matter. We couldn't find them. We went to the staging area. We were supposed to go to Detroit, down Trumbull Avenue, between this road and that road. Okay, 1A is over there. She's in there somewhere, and we couldn't find the local anywhere. She's wearing an older shirt, and came to get a newer shirt and find people. And she was disappointed, and she's calling people that she knows from work, and they're not awake yet. Night shift, people. I'm not awake yet either. I'm going to go take a nap. I am late for a nap. I woke up way too early. Took my morning drug, my 6 a.m. drug, and I usually go right back to sleep. I'm usually wide awake at 3.30 p.m. I'm not awake yet. So, I'm going to go take a nap. I've been a bad boy. I'm going to send me to my room. Labor Day. You know when Labor Day started? It was officially a legal holiday. Congress passed it, first Monday in September. They passed it June 28, 1894. Before then, it was through some states. Oregon, when New York was in this legislature, around 1885, 1886, Oregon was the first to pass a law recognizing Labor Day, February 21, 1887. And it exploded from there. And it was to recognize the people who work. It's the celebration of social and economic achievements of American workers. And, yeah, you know, buildings are built by somebody who belongs in a union. The vehicle you drive is built by somebody who's in a union. And what do unions do? They're just not spoiled brats. Union people are to make sure your stuff is built and built correctly. If there's something that's built wrong, yeah, cars. We've seen, you know, there's recalls and stuff. What happens in a recall, we, the people, we did not put the vehicle together wrong. We just, at one point in time while building another vehicle, there's a part that didn't work right. Okay? We put that part aside. If there's another part that don't work right, hold on, so they got something in common. They got a lot number in common? They do? Oh, well, then we got a problem with certain lot numbers on parts that are put in these vehicles. And so what to do is we want to take away all the vehicles that were built with those lot numbers. Some are still being assembled. Others are in the yard and they're waiting to be shipped or another part put on or something. Fine-tuned, we got to get it right. And others may have left the property. And so that's when recalls start happening. Another time is where somebody has something wrong with their vehicle, they take it in. Okay. Somebody else has something wrong with their vehicle. Is it the same thing? Check the lot numbers. If they're similar, hey, you know, there's something wrong with that particular part, which is how you get recalls from vehicles that were built from 2015 to 2017, something like that a couple of years ago in the span of a couple of years. So there's different ways that recalls can happen. But we are not putting your vehicles together wrong. It is up to the union people who say we're going to put the correct part on and we're going to put it on correctly. And if there's something wrong, then, hey, we're not going to use this box of parts anymore. There's something wrong with a couple. They all need to be inspected one by one, individually by people. And that's it. Union. So there's a bunch of people from the union marching today in Detroit and other places in the country. They're going to meet together, do some speeches, and there's barbecues and celebrations. And this country was put together by union people around 1900, a little before 1900. My great-grandfather was part of a lumber union. Let me look up lumber union. I looked it up before. He came here from Europe. I'm doing this with one hand and I'm looking at the screen to see if I'm doing anything right. My great-grandfather's got this big, huge monument for a headstone. And years ago, my son, we had a piece of paper. We put it over the monument, got a crayon, and found out, you know, it's my great-grandfather's headstone. He was a member of the lumber union around 1900. My great-grandfather died around 1913. Timber professionals. You can say around 1900, they was actually building southeast Michigan loggers and stuff like that. I'm looking up lumber union. That's all I know about it. Well, Michigan Laborers District Council. Hey, these are Michigan's lumber industry. Ooh, that's where I'd have to find my grandfather, my great-grandfather. Came from Europe. Why? Because there was word of jobs here. And the American dream was for everybody to have a home, a car in the driveway, and a turkey in every oven. American dream. You come here, you assimilate however you bring your cultures from where you came from, and you can all just under the umbrella of the United States of America. In Detroit, they had a place called Pole Town, a bunch of Polish restaurants and stuff like that. Awesome. Wow, 1860s. And the next 40 years, Michigan was synonymous with pine lumbering. My great-grandfather was doing that, working with his hands, and he heard that there was jobs here. And he came here to better support his family. The family name, a lot of us came through Ellis Island and saw the Statue of Liberty. And then there's a bunch of the family name in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan. We just went up the Great Lakes, and here most of us are. And, yeah, help put together a Southeast Michigan. So thank a lumber person. So it's not just about the day-off picnics, but it's just to remember the people who work hard to produce stuff that's safe, that will last. And we would like to have – I got a hat that says, Made in the USA. Wouldn't it be nice to have more stuff in this country made here? And wouldn't it be great to have stuff made here and shipped overseas, and people would be proud and like, wow, this is an American-made thing, and it would be quality? That's what we want to get back to. So over your barbecue, on your boats, family getting together, remember that. Remember the people from the late 1800s up to 1900 that worked hard for everything and made the railroads, airplanes, buildings, automobiles. Think of union worker. Anyway, also, Local 174, where are you? We were looking very hard for you. We couldn't find you. I know where they'll be at tomorrow. They'll be at work. I'll be there also. I'll be somewhere at work tomorrow, Local 900. See you tomorrow night, peeps. But for right now, I've got to continue my sleep. I had this dream I went downtown Detroit. Down the street, I had a button. Some pictures had some laughs and all that. Had breakfast. For me, it would be a midnight snack. I usually wake up at 3.30 p.m. So, hey, good night, people. Happy Labor Day. Be safe out there. And, yeah, go to work and school safely tomorrow. Good night.