Celebrated each year on the first Monday of September, the national holiday takes place on Sept. 2 this year. Labor Day is ...

Labor Day weekend usually means the last hurrah before the end of summer and the beginning of school. But the reasons for the observance started with labor activists and unions calling for a ...

Wondering are banks open on Labor Day? Most banks close for the federal holiday, but you can still access ATMs and online ...

Labor Day was officially established and signed into law by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 to recognize the contributions of American workers. Smithsonian Libraries houses many books dealing with ...

The first organization acting as a federation to encompass American unions was the National Labor Union which truly came into force after the Civil War but was reasonably short-lived. The largest ...