Happy Labor Day!
September 7, 2009 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Announcements
Celebrated on the first Monday in September, Labor Day gets its roots from the Nine-Hour Movement in Canada. Peter J. McGuire, an American labor leader, witnessed the parades held in support of a printer’s strike, and returned to New York where he organized the first American Labor Day on September 5th, 1882. It became a federal holiday a couple of years later, and is also a state holiday in every state.
Early Labor Day celebrations were parades and festivals that celebrated the solidarity of the labor movement, but these days most people celebrate the weekend as the end of the …read more
