10 essential things for Labor Day: good reads, events and an Australian blogger says he has the first peek at the new iPhone 5S.

Forget those feel-good motivational posters that were all the rage in the 1990s – check out these motivational posters that employers used to use to keep employees moving in the 1920s. Via Slate.com
Robert Reich blogs that most low-wage workers are employed by large corporations that make healthy profits. In the video below, he tells us what he thinks it would take to improve the labor situation for low-wage workers in this country.
What motivates employees more: strict supervision and penalties, or feel-good strategies that make work more pleasant?
Republican N.J. Gov. Chris Christie signs a bill into law that would ban salary secrecy, which would make it easier for women to find out when they aren’t being paid equal salaries as male colleagues.
Yes, we know: Labor Day is not really the day to celebrate technology made by underpaid Chinese laborers. But blogger Sonny Dickson says he’s gotten ahold of a leaked iPhone 5S and it’s going to come in champagne as well as silver. He’s posted a video of new iPhone images to his site.
Steve Schneider defends Valerie Harper’s right to participate in Dancing With the Stars, health problems be damned, without a bunch of pundits second-guessing her choice.
The Central Florida AFL-CIO is holding its Labor Day picnic today at Lake Eola.
Gawker has an essay on why Labor Day is a scam to keep us poor and miserable forever.
At Salon.com today, David Sirota reminds us that Labor Day is not supposed to be about shopping for deep discounts.