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(I lived in Weiden as a kid)

Giggles in Finnish workers' festival bank holiday

Hmm UK it's the nearest Monday to May 1st. So what I'm hearing is call in sick tomorrow so I get a 4 day weekend.

Easier to believe in the end of sub-lumina travel than the end of Capitalism

In the UK we get the first Monday in May instead which has kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge sort of relationship to IWD (it was added as a UK wide bank holiday by a Labour government back when Labour was more traditionally socialist but it was also an existing bank holiday in Scotland celebrating Beltane so there was some plausible deniability that it was just bringing bank holidays across the countries more into line with each other)

Call out sick anyways, just for shits and giggles

Every normal country has a day off.
Just shows how pathetic americans are

Not every country celebrates the hangover day after drinking for Walpurgis night, I'd assume?

Edit because it's a very specific reference to my country:

Here in Estonia we get May 1st off, but we can't really call it International Workers' Day because then we'd also be celebrating oppression and forced labor, as the soviet union was nominally socialist, but in reality quite oppressive. IWD was very important to the soviet union, they held huge military parades (to show you what would happen if some part of the union would cease to be good obedient workers of course).

So instead we get May 1st off for what we call "Spring Day" AKA May Day in other countries. Incidentally it's the day after Walpurgis night, the ancient celebration of witches and shit.

Also the loser country that doesn't celebrate may 1st has had a labor day for longer than IWD has existed, at least in some states (been a federal holiday for like a century too now). It's just in September.

It's often recognized as International Worker's Day, but I don't know of many places where it's a public holiday. Here in the US, Labor Day is celebrated on Sept. 1, explicitly to separate the labor movement from it's radical origins

Not in the UK!

Jan 1st is a workers day???

But yes tomorrow is labor day. A day of protests and riots by the workers for the workers!! SING LOUD AND PROUD THE INTERNATIONAL!

hyvää vappua!

Not in the Netherlands.

The O'Brien will continue until morale decreases