By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - Labor Day weekend is customarily Americans’ end of summer, the last chance to get away before school starts in earnest. Somewhere amidst farewells to summer, it’s also time for politicians... to pay tributes to and seek the votes of American labor... Labor Day 2021 is apt to be a little different. During two weeks on a New England vacation, I was struck by a real labor problem: the lack of workers.