Coming To A Timeline Near You: The Fight To Increase Minimum Wage

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the first Monday in September wasn't originally set aside for cook outs, college football, consumer sales, and mourning those languid days of summer past. No, Labor Day as first celebrated by a coalition of unions in New York City in 1882, was created to show "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families."