
09/01/2025
Free to read: On Labor Day, West Virginians reflect on the history of workers’ rights — and the role our state played in shaping America’s labor movement.
https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/labor-days-roots-in-west-virginias-coal-country/article_a78c5de7-ac95-4578-9e2e-dcff3c40d4fb.html
Labor Day, observed on the first Monday in September, is more than a long weekend. In West Virginia it reads as a patriotic holiday — one rooted in the idea