Bigelow Tea Honors Labor Day 2009
Friday, 4 September 2009 by Greg
Labor Day means different things to different people: big sales or the last chance for a family vacation before school starts; maybe the end of summer, baseball’s pennant race and the beginning of football season!
Image from the Library of Congress
Most importantly, it’s a time to honor working men and women across the country — and none work harder than our team at Bigelow Tea, providing our fans with over 1.2 billion tea bags per year.
Bigelow Tea employs approximately 350 people who enjoy tremendous work opportunities. Maybe that’s why it’s designated as a Winning Workplace and why so many Bigelow employees stay with the family owned business for their entire career!
Employer-worker relations at many companies have not always been so harmonious. Labor Day has its origins in a desire to overcome labor strife, according to The Labor Movement, by George McNeill, which originated in Boston in 1844. The first Labor Day, however, was celebrated in New York City in 1882 when 10,000 workers paraded (unpaid) to demonstrate the strength of their burgeoning movement. Over the years, states and cities passed ordinances honoring workers, but it was not until 1894 that the U.S. Congress made the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday.
From all of us at the Bigelow Family and Bigelow Tea Family of Workers, have a safe and happy Labor Day!
No. 1 — September 19th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
It’s good to hear that big tea companies are different than many corporations in how the workers feel a part of operations. It’s another example of how everything is different in the tea world. Comaraderie reigns where tea flows. –Spirituality of Tea