I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.
It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.
This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.
America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.
We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.
Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.