Many of us have probably wondered over the years, why do we celebrate Labor Day, although we have no concentrated effort to find out. It is a tradition that we accept without question. Some may not even be aware that Labor Day is more than just the end of summer activities.

The unions were the first to celebrate the start of the Labor Day tradition in the United States. A union leader named Peter McGuire, the idea of ​​the cancellation of a day for unit employees to gather in order. On September 5, 1882, the inaugural parade Labor Day with all her jewelry in New York instead, and a decision was taken by the unions to a date between Independence Day and to mark the Action thanks. The first Monday of September was chosen for the celebrations to come.

When the idea circulated in the United States, some states said today is a holiday, even before the first Monday of September has been designated a national holiday.

President Grover Cleveland signed the Labor Day to honor the law. The date was chosen by the first Monday of September. What makes it memorable is that Cleveland is not a trade union support. In fact, when he signed the law, it was considered, some damage to his political career, he ever had when it sent troops in a strike, which was sponsored by the Union of Workers paths iron, its 34 employees Stop wasting life because repair.

In Europe, China and other countries in the world is in May, the first day of May, they hold similar celebrations in the celebration of North America Labor Day.

In the 1950s 40 percent of workers belonged to unions in the United States. Currently, that number is about 14 percent. As a result, Labor Day is more than informally in the summer because of a union celebrated the end of the holidays. Virtually all schools and businesses (including the U.S. government) close to Labor Day, so people have a barbecue before it starts to get cold. It used to be symbolic, too, as the beginning of a new school year, but many schools back in the mid to late August, the day has lost its importance in this regard, although it is still closed for a holiday schools.