# Happy Labor Day From All of Us

A short thank-you on the first Monday in September to the people who do the work in Shreveport, Bossier City, Minden, Ruston, Covington, Lake Charles, and everywhere in between.

Happy Labor Day from everyone at Trey Morris Injury Lawyers.

The holiday is older than most people think. The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, which makes this past Saturday its 144th birthday. Congress caught up twelve years later, and on June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed the law that put it on the first Monday in September. The [Department of Labor](https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history) still describes it the same way it did then: a celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.

Around here that means a lot of specific people. The crews at the plants in Westlake and Sulphur who work the holiday because the units don't shut down. The nurses and techs on shift at Ochsner LSU Health and Lake Charles Memorial while the rest of us are at the lake. The drivers on I-20 and I-10 hauling what the stores will sell tomorrow. The linemen, the pipe yards, the offshore crews on a fourteen-day hitch, the teachers who spent the weekend getting classrooms ready, the crews at Barksdale, the servers and cooks working every table in downtown Covington and along the Bossier riverfront today. Thank you.

Much of what we do at this firm starts with a workday that went wrong, so we do not take the ordinary ones for granted. A shift that ends on time and a drive home with nothing to report is the whole point of the day.

If you're off today, enjoy it. Cook something slow. Sit outside. Let the kids stay up a little. If you're working, we hope the day is quiet and the tips are good.

Our phones are answered today the same as any other day, but that is not what this post is about. This one is just to say thanks, and to ask one small thing on the way home tonight: drive sober, buckle up, and [get home](/blog/labor-day-weekend-drive-sober/).

Happy Labor Day.