Sweden's national day, June 6, only became a public holiday in 2005. In order for Sweden not to have too many public holidays, one holiday had to be deleted. The choice was between Pentecost and May 1 and it was decided that Pentecost would lose its holiday status.
Personally, I think May 1 should have been the loser. Mainly because its importance today is only symbolic given how protected the employee in Sweden is today with many laws and regulations. But also because the interest in demonstrating for better working conditions is very low among the workers even though it is a public holiday. If they had to use 1 of their 25 statutory vacation days for this the whole movement would implode.
Which would be the only right thing since it only lives via its "artificial respiration" AKA public holiday.
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