Labor Day (Vocabulary)

an organized group of workers, usually formed to protect their communal rights.

• strike

• union

• factory

• wage

to please or make someone calmer by giving them what they desire.

• movement

• wage

• factory

• appease

a building or group of buildings where goods are produced.

• union

• movement

• factory

• condition

a group of people working toward a common goal.

• condition

• factory

• movement

• strike

a form of protest in which a group of employees stops working until their employer agrees to their demands.

• movement

• Labor Day

• strike

• union

circumstances that affect how someone lives, works, etc.

• factory

• Labor Day

• movement

• condition

money paid in exchange for doing work, usually on a regular schedule.

• wage

• union

• strike

• factory

an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only American president to have served two non-consecutive terms.

• Grover Cleveland

• strike

• Central Labor Union

• Labor Day

an early trade union organized in 1867 in New York and New Jersey best known as the organization that created the American Labor Day holiday, also know as the CLU.

• Labor Day

• Grover Cleveland

• strike

• Central Labor Union

a holiday held on the first Monday in September in the United States in honor of working people.

• condition

• strike

• factory

• Labor Day