The Skanner News Wishes You a Relaxing and Enjoyable Labor Day

The Skanner News Wishes You a Relaxing and Enjoyable  Labor Day. Because there is plenty of work ahead.

It takes investment,  ideas and plans to begin a project, and labor to bring it to fruition. As one of The Skanner News' declared values states: All separate parts work well together.

Today we face high unemployment, and lack of job opportunities especially for African Americans. Let's consider the value of labor in that equation. And let's consider how we can work together to give everyone opportunities to sustain themselves and their families  through meaningful employment.  In her Labor Day address to the American people, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis details current job creation efforts.     The Skanner News Video: U.S. Sec. of Labor Hilda Solis



Here's the origin of the holiday from the Department of  Labor website.

The First Labor Day

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.

In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.

Labor Day Legislation

Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.

  



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