The Cost of Labor Day
The weekend, the eight-hour day, and basic safety laws were won through strikes, struggle, and sometimes death.
Labor Day has become a three-day weekend, a chance to grill burgers, hit the beach, or squeeze in one last trip before school and politics take over again. But that’s not why the holiday exists. Labor Day was carved out of struggle. It honors the people who fought for basic rights at work, rights that weren’t handed down from above but wrestled into exi…
