For most Americans, Labor Day is nothing but one final three-day weekend before the onset of autumn. One last camping trip, beach outing or cookout before the accoutrements of summer are packed away for another nine months.
What the holiday was created to celebrate has been lost in the mists of time — thus providing the leaders of Big Labor with a tailor-made opportunity to lie about it.
And they will. Just as surely as we can expect commuters to gridlock the nation’s freeways through the long weekend, we can also count on the mainstream media’s editorial pages being littered with guest opinions from chest-thumping union moguls congratulating themselves for the laundry list of essential functions they perform that warrant a day in their honor.
And once again, they’ll be wrong on both counts.
Labor Day began in 1894 when President Grover Cleveland signed a congressional act…
