By Melissa Varnavas

In the United States, we celebrate Labor Day as the official end of summer. We know it isn’t really the end of summer. Heck, here in New England, where ACDIS headquarters are located, it’s been muggy, 90-plus-degrees. Although the forecasters say the temperatures will likely drop to a more seasonal 80-ish for the long holiday weekend, September and October often come with heatwaves of their own.

While many of us will, however, mark summer’s demise with trips to the family camp or backyard cookouts complete with corn-on-the-cob and hockey-puck hamburgers, I encourage those in the CDI profession to take a minute and reflect on the underlying labor part of this national holiday.