Labor Day is a national holiday, according to the U.S. Department of Labor official site, that exists as “a creation of the labor movement” dedicated to the “social and economic achievements of American workers.”

Labor Day is always observed on the first Monday in September.

Who Started Labor Day?

The first official government observance of what we now know as Labor Day occurred in Oregon when the state passed legislation to formally recognize the holiday in 1887.  It’s uncertain who first thought up the holiday. According to the Department of Labor, it was either Peter J. McGuire, a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, or Matthew McGuire, a machinist who later became the secretary of his local International Association of Machinists lodge in New Jersey.

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