Recorded at 10:30 am

This sermon reminds us that this holiday honors the labor unions that transformed the lives of generations of “the working poor.” But over the past four decades, Labor Day has become more of an end-of-summer picnic for most Americans, while labor laws have been weakened and wages for the poorest workers have stagnated or declined. Breeden’s message is personal, relating how his father’s union membership enabled his family to escape poverty and attain some of the benefits of “the American Dream.”