I searched in vain in the Sunday newspaper and again Monday for any story, opinion, or editorial about the significance of Labor Day. I have always found it odd that in a region with a strong union presence (at Electric Boat, in the schools and the hospital, at the casinos, et al.), that The Day regularly ignores labor and subsumes it, when mentioned at all, under the Business heading. But to have not one story about what is, after all, a federal holiday, is perverse.

The closest I see is the story on the millions of unemployed who will be cut off as of today. Nothing about the ongoing suppression of organized labor by the coalition of business and their political lackeys. Not one word among the many celebrating entrepreneurs who are savagely and often illegally penalizing workers who even discuss the idea of a union (craft brewers are notorious for this; think about that next time you raise an artisanal beer). No mention of how those frontline workers who supply the food we eat, in dirty and dangerous conditions, have suffered at least as much as hospital staff during the pandemic. Not even a squib thanking the paper's own union staff. Hard to fathom.

Daniel Storms

East Lyme

Editor's note: On Labor Day the Opinion section included two commentaries on labor issues; a commentary by LZ Granderson about younger workers demanding a better balance between work demands and their private lives − and leaving jobs if they don't get it − and a column by Froma Harrop questioning if working remotely should affect pay and promotional opportunities. The Day has no employees organized in unions, but has in the past.