Match Labor Day and workers' rights terms with their meanings.
Free labor day flash cards with 10 terms and definitions. Flip through each card to study, or shuffle for a new order. Printable for classroom or homework use.
Labor Day is often treated as the end of summer rather than what it commemorates. These pairs give students the vocabulary to understand why the holiday exists and what organized workers won.
Students pair labor terms with meanings: UNION with the organized group that bargains for its members, STRIKE with the work stoppage used to press demands, and WEEKEND with the two-day break won by labor organizing.
Ask students to list jobs held by adults they know, then discuss which protections on the cards apply to those jobs. The WEEKEND pair usually surprises students, and it opens a good conversation about how workplace norms were fought for rather than given.
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