Happy Labor Day: A Message from Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez
Thomas E. Perez, the U.S. secretary of labor, sends you this message on Labor Day:
Brother and Sisters,
From the U.S. Department of Labor, where I proudly work in a building named for my great predecessor Frances Perkins, let me wish all of my friends in the AFL-CIO and your familiesāwherever you areāa safe, happy and healthy Labor Day. This Labor Day feels special in many ways: weāre celebrating 100 years of the Labor Departmentās tireless efforts on behalf of American workers, and last week we celebrated the March on Washington 50 years agoāa transformational moment in our history that was just as much about labor rights as it was about civil rights. Today, letās remember that these two movements remain inextricably intertwined, their interests converging time and time again, their goals essentially the same.


