Sept. 3, 2012

A Little Labor Day Message

Thanks to my comrades at The Airplane Geeks Show for staying way ahead of me and posting my annual Labor Day message. In case you don’t listen to our show — impossible as that might be — do give this link a quick click. Promise I don’t pontificate too much about what the labor movement and the aviation industry have lost over the past 10 years or so.

Airplane Geeks Episode 212.5 – Labor Day. Or if you prefer to read, here’s a link to a quick reprise to some other thoughts about why Labor Day should still be important to us here in the states.

Rob

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