A19 Labor Leaders See Opportunity As they have on past Labor Days, the nation's union leaders are vowing to reverse labor's decline, but that goal is made more difficult this year by the schism in the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
"We had worked 23 Labor Days in a row; it wasn't like it was a day to spend with our family," said Randy Hadley, a union representative who helped negotiate the contract.
The average American buys four bags of packaged ice each year; 80percentt of all packaged ice is sold between Memorial and Labor days.
For adult moviegoers the three long months between Memorial and Labor Days is a time -- marked by a corporate contempt for beauty, sense and style -- that redefines escapism as a desire to get out of the cineplex as quickly as possible.
Sartorial rules are no longer set in stone, but white shoes still look best between Memorial and Labor days.
Both intensive and extensive pruning consumed more labor days than non-pruning, but the labor input under extensive pruning was 76 81% less than that under intensive pruning.
