KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — While Labor Day celebrations now feature cookouts and weekend trips, the original holiday began following the Industrial Revolution with labor workers fighting to unionize ...

Local officials and presidential candidates mingled with union members, their families and supporters at the annual Hawkeye Area Labor Council Labor Day Picnic at Hawkeye Downs Speedway and Expo ...

Members of United Teachers Los Angeles cheer during a Labor Day protest on Sept. 1, 2025, in Wilmington. (William Liang/For The Times) Thousands of union members and others participated in marches, ...

He arrived at the coal mines, textile mills and industrial factories dressed in a three-piece suit. He wooed those in charge, asking to be let in. He was just a humble Bible salesman, he claimed, who ...

For many middle-class Americans, Labor Day plans might include eating hot dogs, grilling food, and visiting with friends and family. But low-key holiday plans can't hold a candle to the Kardashian ...

Sep 4, 2022 Sep 4, 2022 Updated Sep 1, 2023 0 In this 2013 photo, a sculpture honoring labor by Matthew Placzek is being installed next to the marina at Lewis & Clark Landing. A bobcat works on ...

The annual Labor Day Lift Off balloon festival had a successful launch from Memorial Park in Colorado Springs on Sunday morning, Sept. 5, 2021. The balloons will launch one more time on Monday morning ...

This Labor Day, put down your burger and White Claw, and spend some time thinking about the American worker. Sure, it can be easy to take a cynical view of the holiday, signed into law by President ...

TORRINGTON >> The city is one of several across the state to share CT Humanities’ “The Way We Worked” exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution, featuring a collection of historic photographs focused ...

He arrived at the coal mines, textile mills and industrial factories dressed in a three-piece suit. He wooed those in charge, asking to be let in. He was just a humble Bible salesman, he claimed, who ...