When do we celebrate our workers hard work and contribution to our United States of America? In the United States of America Labor Day, is always celebrated the first Monday in September; the Labor Day holiday is a creation of the labor movement and one reason it was started for was to build support for the 8 hour work day. Labor Day weekend is actually in honor of the physical, social and economic achievements of American workers. So when is Labor Day 2013? This year Labor Day Weekend begins Friday August 30th 2013 and ends on Labor Day Monday September 2, 2013; and when is Labor Day Weekend 2014? (If the world ends in 2012 or 2014 then Labor Day & Labor Day Weekend 2013 and 14 are canceled.) This 2014 Labor Day Weekend should begin Friday August 29th 2014 and ends on Labor Monday September1, 2014 (then in 2015 the first September Monday isn't till the 7th). The yearly Labor Day holiday celebration constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions American workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country and it still is although it has come to mean many other things as well to the American people. Here is a brief story about how the Labor Day weekend has become what it is and how it got started… continued

Thea little bit of Labor Day Weekend history captured in the two photographs above taken in New York City at Americas first Labor Day Parade: "On September 5, 1882, some 10,000 workers assembled in New York City to participate in America's first Labor Day parade. After marching from City Hall, past reviewing stands in Union Square, and then uptown to 42nd Street, the workers and their families gathered in Wendel's Elm Park for a picnic, concert, and speeches." Today in history Sept 5 Libray of Congress

The historic WWII Labor Day Poem that was published in the newspaper with the above graphic Labor Day September 5, 1944: I am Labor. I stand before you on this, my day, free and proud. I am the incarnation of Work, and Work is the foundation of modern civilization. Before the silvery bombers can take the air my skilled fingers have fashioned and serviced them. The shining shell, the precise rifle, the intricate clockwork of tank and ship, these grew beneath the trained and intelligent hands with which I get my living.
Because the things I do are basic and necessary, I yeld my dignity to no man. Because of that dignity, I prize my manhood and my freedom. I Shall defend it. To those who would degrade me to an automation, make me a slave, I return loud and scornful laughter. Here in my United States I am more than a Worked, more than a Laborer, I am a Man.
This manhood, this freedom, on my own Labor Day of 1941, I do not propose to yield.