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labor day on different date

fake ass bank holiday

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"

This map seems weird, I just googled the first and biggest grey blob I knew the name of. Seems like the map is wrong.

Greenland is a danish ~~colony~~ territory and has the same holidays in the same way. The international workers' day is observed in both nations and is often a "half day off". I don't know why those two are grey.

I thought the image might be a list of countries that had a holiday on 1. may, but it doesn't seem like it. The image is form this wiki article where each country is listed. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason behind the coulours. Mozabique is marked red even though it just "celebrates" the day.

It seems like this list is made by an american because it makes an effort to specify "paid public holiday" for Tunisia. Does that mean the other days aren't holidays either, except from a US perspective?

Most places public holidays are paid, that's what makes it a holiday.

Colombia is weird too because "most workers celebrate it" is enough to colour the contry red.

However, in Canada most workers also celebrate the day, but it's not red

Cuba too doesn't specify a public holiday, but is colored red.

There's more, but you get it

edit: definitely written by an amerikkkan, most other countries are 2 lines, but the US one is long as hell

For some reason we have to know about clashes with police

c/alwaysthesamemap

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