When the American Federation of Labor pushed to make Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, it promoted the occasion as a celebration of “all wage workers,” not merely union members. More than a century later, however, the labor movement has been hijacked by government unions whose political agenda puts public-sector pay and job security ahead of private-sector job creation and economic growth.

This Labor Day, we should celebrate the working people the holiday was created to honor. We should also recognize that allowing government employees to unionize was a policy mistake that should be reversed.