Happy Labour Day - celebrate the 8-hour day

In Melbourne, opposite the Trades Hall building stands a monument to the winning of the 8-hour day for workers (leaving 8 hours to sleep, another 8 hours for recreation). http://www.8hourday.org.au/news_archive.asp
Today's Labour Day public holiday in Australia commemorates that hard-won right. And we take for granted those humane working conditions won for us.
We should be thankful that we are not in the US where the democratic right even to bargain for conditions of workers collectively is under threat, under the pretext of budgetary constraints. See 100,000 people in Wisconsin protesting against what will amount to an 8% pay cut:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/100000-protest-at-wisconsin-labour-bill-20110313-1bstt.html