From today’s USA Today:
With students back in school and pumpkin-flavored treats returning to menus, the end of summer, unofficially marked by Labor Day, is here.
During the three-day Labor Day weekend, many Americans will travel, shop for deals online and in-store and maybe sneak in one final visit to the beach or neighborhood pool.
However, the federal holiday is much more than just the summer’s last hurrah. Observed each year on the first Monday of September, Labor Day is a celebration of the hard-won achievements of America’s labor movement and a recognition of the contributions workers have made to the nation’s prosperity.
This year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to skip the barbecue and spend their Labor Day protesting President Donald Trump and the billionaires who support him.
More than a thousand “Workers Over Billionaires” events are planned nationwide on Labor Day and the surrounding days, USA TODAY reported.
Organizers are expecting “a big show of force on Monday that we’re not going to take it sitting down, that working class people across the country are ready to fight back and to make sure that we don’t just let billionaires run roughshod over our communities,” Saqib Bhatti, executive director of Action Center on Race and the Economy, told USA TODAY.
Here’s what you need to know about the Labor Day holiday, including when it falls in 2025 and its origins.
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