Laboring Cats

Today is one of those days that humans have. It is a day when a lot of people get off from their work to honor hard workers and these things called Unions. It turns out that once the people who owned the companies wanted people to work a very long time without a rest. They even got little kids to do hard work. If you didn't like it, the boss would say, OK, go on home, I'll give your job to someone else. Since workers needed the money, they had to put up with it. They didn't get much money, either. Some mart people got the idea that if a big bunch of the workers said they were upset, and did it all at once, the bosses would have to listen or they would stop working. At our house, we think  that is a wonderful plan. That's because we are the workers. If we were the rich bosses we would have been mad because they outsmarted us. By joining together - I guess that's why they called it a union - they forced the bosses to give them the weekends off. They made them agree to a fair kind of pay, and my favorite part is that they had to promise not to let little kids work anymore. Being a kid is hard enough without having to go to a job. I'll bet they even had the cats catching mice and didn't pay them a single kibble. Once a year, they take a day to appreciate what the Unions did..Not everyone gets the day off, because then the workers wouldn't have a place to go on their honor day. Movies, eating places, store - all stay open to help the workers. Since He and She are not workers any more, it could be just another day for them, but They remember when They were working people, and they stop and appreciate the workers, too. All of that learning about this day has me worn out. I'm off for a nap. Bye.