In the US, today is Labor Day.

This is the day we (claim to) celebrate the workers who built this country and who laid the foundations for things we have today, like the 8 hour day, 40 hour week, breaks, overtime pay, shift differential, and benefits.

They faced violent opposition from a “private detective service” named Pinkerton that were hired by corporations to prevent unions from improving the pay and working conditions. They were really just thugs.

So when we have any of the things unions brought us, they were paid for by a worker getting his head bashed in a century ago.