Tomorrow is fake Labor Day...that holiday
the US Government came up with to lure workers away from the real Labor Day on
May 1. Here are some fun union songs to sing today and an explanation of labor
day from Wikipedia:
- សតិវ អតុ
Labor Day in
the United States is
a public
holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It honors
the American
labor movement and the contributions that workers have made to
the strength, prosperity, laws and
well-being of the country. It is the Monday of the long weekend known as Labor Day Weekend and
it is considered the unofficial end of summer in the United States . The holiday is also
a federal
holiday.
Beginning in the late 19th century, as
the trade union and labor movements grew, trade unionists proposed that a day
be set aside to celebrate labor. "Labor Day" was promoted by
the Central Labor Union and
the Knights of Labor, which
organized the first parade in New York City. In 1887, Oregon was the first state of the United States
to make it an official public holiday. By the time it became an official federal holiday in 1894, thirty U.S. statesofficially celebrated Labor Day.[1]
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