Labour movement

And I sat there and thought, let's be very serious.

I appreciate that historically the Conservative Party hasn't always had the best relationship with the trade union movement.

But if you want to be a serious party of government, 6.6 million union members across the country, and that's growing, is actually something you need to engage with.

And actually hanging your coat out sometimes on some of these very populist, poorly thought out statements from reform, I don't think are going to work for them.

That is sacrifice.

Now let's talk about 1886, because this is where the labor movement hits its most violent moment before the Pullman strike.

May 1st, 1886, workers across the country went on strike, demanding an eight-hour workday.

More than 300,000 workers participated in strikes and demonstrations nationwide.

Yeah.

Now let's talk about something most tellings of this history leave out entirely.

The relationship between Black workers and the labor movement.

because while white workers were marching in Labor Day parades and striking for better conditions, the major labor organizations of the late 1800s were often explicitly excluding black workers.