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I don’t know if this is super reliable, Australia has labour day celebrations but they’re all over the place
Only the October 7 ones don’t (I think) have anything to do with labour day, the March dates are about the eight hour working day, for why NT and Qld don’t fall on 1 May…
Labour Day was first celebrated with a public holiday in Queensland in 1865 as Eight Hours Celebration Day. It occurred on 1 March and celebrated the winning of an eight-hour work day by Brisbane workers in 1858. The date was moved to May Day around 1896, in solidarity with the attack on United States workers on the first May Day parade in the Haymarket affair. In 1901, the holiday was moved to the first Monday in May, to ensure a long weekend
“Yeah nah mate we support the US workers but fuck me dead it’s been five years already, I just want a long bloody weekend”
Sounds about right lmao
This is a running theme in Australia. Most public holidays (aside from xmas and new years IIRC) were arranged to fall on the closest Monday, regardless of the actual date. It’s only changed relatively recently.
It’s pretty much the same pattern in the UK for public holidays.
Garfield ass country
I just want a long bloody weekend
certified australian public holiday moment
give us another monday PH before melbourne cup day you cowards
Cursory googling tells me the yellow areas also celebrate a worker’s holiday on 1 May, it is just also a spring celebration, with the exception of Kazakhstan where they apparently celebrate all the ethnicities specifically as a post-soviet replacement for Labor Day.
Honestly it’s kinda weird to use the same day as everyone else. It should be a date relevant to workers in that country
It’s the only international holiday not bound to any religion( except Jan 1). It unites people which is nice
yeees, balkanize labor day, that’ll fix it! divided we stand, united we fall! :D
Why not two holidays?
Good luck getting our corporate overlords to allow that. They already are constantly trying to cancel some holidays
no. the entire point is international solidarity between the working class. absolutely not, America and the anglo colonizer nations use a different date to divide and conquer, why would you aid them in their goals by just further balkanizing the movement?
The chart is misleading. The UK celebrates Labour Day on May 1st. There is also another different holiday on that date though, Mayday. This does not stop Labour Day also being organised and celebrated across the country on that date though.
