Celebrated each year on the first Monday of September, the national holiday takes place on Sept. 2 this year. Labor Day is celebrated to recognize the achievements of the United States labor ...

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 ...

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 ...

By 1900, the union had about 1 million members. They even won a day to honor the worker. In 1894 Labor Day became a national holiday. At the time, unemployment was high and hours were long. In 1914, ...

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 ...

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