Labor Day Vs. May Day: What’s the Difference? (Isn’t That Confusing?) — Let’s Learn the Easy and Fun Way!
While both holidays celebrate workers, the tone, history, and traditions of each could not be more different!
This month (September), we’re getting ready to celebrate Labor Day here in the United States, so I thought it would be fun and a bit enlightening to talk about the difference between the Labor Day we celebrate in September and the other one you might have heard of: May Day on May 1st.
While both holidays celebrate workers, the tone, history, and traditions of each could not be more different!
So, let’s break it down in a super-easy-to-understand-and-somewhat-entertaining way.
May Day: The Rebel Holiday
First, let’s start with May Day, the original labor holiday!
May Day, which falls on May 1, is kind of like that one rebellious cousin at family reunions — comes in with big ideas, and even bigger opinions.
It all dates back to the 1880s when workers in the U.S. were fighting for what we consider today a given: the eight-hour workday.
