- Advocates for Children of New YorkGemeinnützige Organisation
- East Harlem Buy LocalShopping und Einzelhandel
- Goddard Riverside Community CenterGemeinnützige Organisation
- Community Service Society of New YorkGemeinnützige Organisation
- Project RenewalSozialdienstleistungen
- Mehr anzeigentriangle-down
OrteNew York CitySozialdienstleistungenUnion Settlement
As we head into this Labor Day weekend, here's a look back at the importance of this holiday with our Executive Director, David Nocenti:
"Although most people now only think of Labor Day as a day to be off from work, it has a very important history, and was created as a tribute to the contributions and achievements of workers, the role they play in society, and the fight for decent pay and working conditions.
The push to establish a Labor Day holiday began in the late 1800s,... when workers were routinely abused and exploited. At the time there were no minimum wage laws, no workplace safety laws, no paid vacations, no sick days, and few child labor laws.
Many individuals worked 10-12 hour days, six or seven days per week, for very low pay, often in unsafe working conditions.
This routine mistreatment of workers led to the creation and spread of labor unions, which began organizing rallies and strikes to protest low wages and unsafe working conditions, in an effort to force employers to begin to address these issues.
On September 5, 1882, the Central Labor Union of New York and the American Federation of Labor jointly organized a march from City Hall to Union Square, and over 10,000 workers took unpaid time off to participate. This was the first “Labor Day” parade in U.S. history.
In subsequent years similar rallies spread nationwide, and soon individual states started passing laws recognizing the first Monday in September as state holidays honoring workers. Labor Day finally became an official federal holiday in 1894.
Union Settlement was established the next year, in 1895, as part of this progressive era. Our focus, like those of many other settlement houses, was (and is) to continue to address – through direct service, public advocacy and community organizing – the needs of the low-income workers and families."
Union Settlement hat eine Veranstaltung hinzugefügt.
