"Hi, I'm Cinny Nym, Dean of Faculty at Vocabulary University."
We have created a Labor Day word puzzle for you to solve.
You can copy this page or get a PDF copy here for your classroom or home.
Below the puzzle are two "A-to-Z" alphalary® lists: one for Labor Day (161 words) and the second for "Career/Life Skills" (281 words). Enjoy celebrating Labor Day and Industrial Arts with these words."

Labor Day, a holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September in the US, Puerto Rico and Canada, honors working individuals. In addition, to many people, it is also an indication of the end of summer. Other countries celebrate this special day with different dates. For example, in Australia, Labor Day is known as Eight Hour Day. In Europe, Labor Day occurs on May 1.
Labor Day was initially suggested as a day without work by Peter McGuire, a carpenter, and by Matthew Maguire, a machinist. The first Labor Day parade, provided by members of the Central Labor Union and Knights of Labor, took place in September 1882 in NYC. Oregon, in 1887, was the first state to make Labor Day a holiday. Shortly thereafter Colorado, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey also adopted the September holiday. In 1894 President Grover Cleveland recognized the day as a national holiday.
With thanks to Elizabeth H. Sechrist

• A: acceptance, agency, agriculture, aim, alter, alternative, apprenticeship, arbitration, authority, automation
• B: banding together, bargain, benefits, blacklist, blue-collar, Brotherhood,
• C: carpenter, cause, cautious, celebrate, clerical, closed shop, collective bargaining, commemorate, compensation, complaint, condition, conflict, conviction, corruption, costs, craft-worker, creative
• D: damage, decrease, demands, determination, disclosure, discord, discrimination, discussion, dispute
• E: economics, eliminate, employer, employment, enforce, equalize
• F: factor, failure, federation, force, founder, fringe benefit, function
• G: garment, goal, goods, grant, grievance, guild
• H: handle, holidays, hours, human resources
• I: illegal, improvement, increase, industry, inflation, instrumental, interests, international, intolerant, issues
• J: jeopardy, job seeker, join, Joiner, journeyman, jurisdiction
• K:
• L: labor force, leadership, legal, legendary, legislation, legal, local, location, lockout
• M: machinist, majority, management, manager, member, minority
• N: national, nationalization, natural, neglect, negotiation
• O: objective, on-the-job, open shop, operative, oppose, opposition, organize, overtime
• P: picket, population, position, practice, procedure, product, productivity, promote, promotion, protest, punitive
• Q: quality, qualm, quantity
• R: recognition, recreation, reform, refusal, relation, relationship, representative, riot, risky, rest
• S: sabotage, safety, salary, security, seniority, settlement, shift, shop, site, skill, slowdown, specialist, statistics, strife, strike, success, sum
• T: technical, trade, training, trend
• U: unconstitutional, unfair, unify, union
• V: value, vested, vocation, vocational
• W: wages, welfare, white-collar, woe, workmanship, worthwhile
• X:
• Y: youth
• Z: zeal, zealous

Labor Day (or Week) Lesson Plan Ideas:
Objectives: Teach students to appreciate history and do a bit of problem solving and research.

1 - Make a "discovery suitcase" cutting out pictures or ads for items that students would find if they were looking for a job.
Did they find job offerings in the food industry? in clothing? near or on a body of water? Is there a job that they absolutely would not like? Why?
Write a paragraph (or more?) to explain why jobs they choose would be beneficial.

2 - Tape papers to the white board. Have students see what others found. Have them vote on the three jobs they like best!

If you have an Internet connection, do a web search for Life Skills & Careers choices for someone under 20 years old or under 30 years old.

Discuss the following people and their contributions to the labor movement: Cesar E. Chavez, Eugene V. Debs, Samuel Gompers, James R. Hoffa, Peter McGuire, Matthew Maguire.

Discuss the following organizations. What is their role?: AFL-CIO, IWW, KOL, WTULA

• A: academic, accounting, accuracy, achievement, administration, advancement, affiliation, affordable, alternatives, analysis, aplomb, appreciation, appropriate, ardent, array, associate, association, astute, attentive, attitude, awareness
• B: balance, basics, behavior, benefits, building, bureaucracy, business
• C: capability, career, chemistry, choice, circulation, classified, communication, comparable, compensation, community, compliance, confidence, confusion, conscientiousness, constant, contacts, construction, contribution, credibility, credit, critic, curiosity, customer
• D: daily, deadline, debate, degree, demonstrate, department, design, development, devote, dexterity, diploma, diplomacy, direction, discipline, discussion, disposition, dispute, distribution
• E: eagerness, ease, economics, edit, education, effective, effort, element, eligible, empathetic, employee, employer, endurance, energy, ensure, entrepreneur, establish, ethics, etiquette, experience, enthusiasm, expenses
• F: facilitate, fair, finance, flexibility, focus, foundation
• G: generous, genuine, goal, graduation, growth, guideline
• H: handle, headhunter, helpful, hindsight, hiring, hobby, hospitable, housing
• I: ideal, ideas, immediate, impact, impression, impropriety, improvement, industrious, informative, infringement, input, inquiry, inquisitive, inspiration, instinctive, insurance, integrity, intelligence, intense, intention, interests, interpret, interview, inventory, investment
• J: job, judicious, just
• K: keen, kindness, knowledge
• L: laud, learning, lender, listening, litigation, loyalty
• M: management, manager, manner, marketing, membership, mentor, model, monetary, motivation
• N: name, negotiate, network, notoriety, numerous
• O: objective, obvious, offer, operations, opinion, opportunity, optimistic, organization, ownership
• P: passionate, patience, payroll, persistence, personality, pleasant, pleasing, policy, positive, possibilities, potential, practical, practice, praise, presentation, privacy, proactive, problem, problem solving, production, profession, promotion, prospective, protection, purchasing, purpose,
• Q: quality, quantity, quest, question, quick
• R: rapport, recommendation, recruit, reflection, relationship, relevancy, reliability, relocation, research, responsibility, resolution, resources, respect, responsive, resume, review, reward, risk, role, routine
• S: salary, sales, salesmanship, schedule, scholarly, secretarial, security, select, sensitivity, serious, service, services, simultaneousness, skill, skillful, socialize, spontaneity, staff, steer, strategy, strength, struggle, study, subscribe, successful, suitable, support, supportive, survey
• T: tardy, time, timing, timely, training, treatment, trend
• U: ultimate, uncommon, understanding, unique, unison, unite, unqualified, upside
• V: velocity, veteran
• W: worry, worthwhile, worthy
• X: (e)xcel
• Y: youth
• Z: zone

Some qualities of a "good" hire: