Quote Originally Posted by 48091 View Post
Another poster found the answer:

http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/Residents/CityHolidays.aspx

It's a city holiday. Why does the city have this off? It was bargained for by the unions.

Heck ya! My hunch was right.

Other odd holidays that city employees have bargained for and take off while the rest of the non-unionized world is productive on:

Election Day
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas' Eve [[in addition to Christmas Day)
New Years' Eve [[in addition to New Years' Day)
Sheesh. While you're at it, why don't you blame the unions for the 40-hour work week? That's like 128 hours people spend goofing off and being unproductive. Or shit like paid vacations! They're PAYING workers to be unproductive and go drink beer in the sun! How dare they!