Labour Day everywhere..... except in North America !

In 1884, during a congress of the American Federation of Labor, the principal working trade unions of the United States had given two years to impose to the owners the limitation of the working day to eight hours.

In May 1st, 1886, the workers who did not obtain the eight hours day in their companies struck.
This date commemorates this fight of the workers. The memory of this day brings Europeans, a few years later, to institute the Labour Day later.

The Labour Day is celebrated on May 1 in Europe and at the international level except in North America (1st Monday of September).

At the beginning of the XXème century, the workers ravelled in the streets in working clotheses.
Nowadays, it is always a day of protest, the occasion for the workers to ravel in the large towns of France to the call of the trade-union organizations and certain political parties.
For others, it is the occasion to spend the day in family.
The French legislation does not prohibit work the public holidays except for May 1 which must be been unemployed.