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trade union movement

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Labour Day is first observed as a public holiday

📅 19 June 1973

On 19 June 1973, Trinidad and Tobago observed Labour Day as a public holiday for the first time. The date commemorates the 1937 oilfield uprising and the working-class struggle that helped build the...