Flags for Labor Day
Chances are that you are one of the people who was celebrated and honored yesterday. If you are in the American workforce, it was you.
On Monday, September 2, 2019, the United States Department of Labor celebrated and honored the American worker. It was the 125th anniversary of Labor Day being celebrated as one of our national holiday.
Labor Day, celebrated on the first Monday in the month of September, is dedicated to the social and economic achievements brought about by American workers. It celebrates the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of the United States of America.
It was 1885 and 1886 when the first governmental recognition was passed through municipal ordinances. Then, a movement was developed to help secure state legislation. New York was the first state to introduce a bill to their legisture, but Oregon was the first state to pass a law in 1887 creating a Labor Day Holiday. Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York followed suit. Twenty-three more states had adopted the holiday by 1894. On June 28, 1894, Congress passed an act that made the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
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