Federal holidays are only required to be observed by the Federal
government. If you look at Texas, they probably have an additional
State holiday that's not followed by anyone else. They probably figured
that they could only allow so many days off so something had to give.
For an example of States that have holidays no one else follows such as
Massachusetts with Patriots day, and Rhode Island with VJ day, though I
don't think that VJ day is a paid holiday for state workers anymore.
On 9/7/2015 12:41 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
As a kid, I've learned that the International Workers Day (or "the
international day of solidarity of workers"), aka May 1, was inspired
by the Chicago events (Haymarket affair) of 1886.
But until this morning (when I heard a history snippet on PBS radio),
I was unaware that the Labor Day in September is actually related to
the same events but was purposedly established in September to
"detangle" from them ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day ).
One of the idiosyn... pecularities of Texas A&M University is that
the Labor Day is not a day off. I don't know how it happened, but I
wonder if that was from some type of disagreement with Pres. Cleveland
or labor movement in the country.
Igor
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Knarf wrote:
I celebrate both! International Workers Day (May Day) and Labour Day
are both worth recognizing.
I have to admit, as May 1 is a, "celebration of laborers and the working
classes that is promoted by the international labor movement,
anarchists,
socialists, and communists," (Wikipedia) I'm kind of partial to that.
But
North American Labour Day (first Monday in September) works too!
Happy Labour Day!
Cheers,
frank
On 7 September, 2015 11:57:08 AM EDT, John <[email protected]>
wrote:
Happy Labor Day whether you celebrate it in May or September.
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