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Do you know how or why we celebrate this holiday? According to History.com, ” Labor Day is the annual celebration of workers and their achievements. In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living.” Due to the long hours and minimum pay, the workers went on strike and decided enough was enough. The unofficial holiday observance was on Septemeber 5th, 1882. The chose the beginning of September because it lied perfectly between the July 4th holiday and Thanksgiving. Fast forwarding to 1894, Grover Cleveland made Labor Day a federal holiday and we have observed it ever since.
