HAVE A GREAT LABOR DAY FROM THE CHILD CARE ANSWERS STAFF

Facts fro Features - Labor Day Weekend 2010
Published 09/02/2010 - 9:51 p.m. CST

The first observance of Labor Day is believed to have been a parade of 10,000 workers on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, organized by Peter J. McGuire, a Carpenters and Joiners Union secretary. By 1893, more than half the states were observing a “Labor Day” on one day or another, and Congress passed a bill to establish a federal holiday in 1894. President Grover Cleveland signed the bill soon afterward, designating the first Monday in September as Labor Day.