This map seems weird, I just googled the first and biggest grey blob I knew the name of. Seems like the map is wrong.
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Greenland is a danish
colonyterritory 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.
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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?
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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.
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However, in Canada most workers also celebrate the day, but it's not red
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Cuba too doesn't specify a public holiday, but is colored red.
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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
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It’s not a public holiday for them. In Canada, for example, the public holiday for Labour Day is in September.
It is a public holiday though, it's a half day off. And, as I've detailed, other countries that do not have public holidays are included.
Taiwan is colored red, even though not everyone gets the day off
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edit: another example of being red despite not being a "total public holiday"
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As far as I can see, Denmark hasn't officially "marked" the day as a public holiday, but I've tried to detail how that seems to be an inconsistent criteria in the list.
I don't know if this is super reliable, Australia has labour day celebrations but they're all over the place
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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"
I just want a long bloody weekend
certified australian public holiday moment
give us another monday PH before melbourne cup day you cowards
This is a running theme in Australia. Most public holidays (aside from xmas and new years IIRC) were arranged to fall on the closest Monday, regardless of the actual date. It's only changed relatively recently.
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
no. the entire point is international solidarity between the working class. absolutely not, America and the anglo colonizer nations use a different date to divide and conquer, why would you aid them in their goals by just further balkanizing the movement?
The chart is misleading. The UK celebrates Labour Day on May 1st. There is also another different holiday on that date though, Mayday. This does not stop Labour Day also being organised and celebrated across the country on that date though.
yeees, balkanize labor day, that'll fix it! divided we stand, united we fall! :D
It's the only international holiday not bound to any religion( except Jan 1). It unites people which is nice
Good luck getting our corporate overlords to allow that. They already are constantly trying to cancel some holidays
