{"id":277,"date":"2006-09-04T07:25:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=277"},"modified":"2006-09-04T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T12:25:50","slug":"labor-day-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/labor-day-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Justsell.com daily email:<\/p>\n<p>The first U.S. Labor Day was celebrated September 5, 1882, when the Central Labor Union organized a demonstration and picnic in New York City, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Eleven years later, more than 30 states had passed bills to adopt the Labor Day holiday, and in 1894, Congress passed a bill establishing Labor Day as a federal holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September.<\/p>\n<p>A few labor statistics:<\/p>\n<li>151 million employees compose the nations labor force<\/li>\n<li>10.5 million workers are self-employed<\/li>\n<li>7.5 million people work more than one job<\/li>\n<li>5 million people work from home<\/li>\n<p>I had a coach years ago who would run us through 2 long football practices on Labor Day. He used to tell us, &#8220;It is Labor Day and you will labor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I always hated that line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Justsell.com daily email: The first U.S. Labor Day was celebrated September 5, 1882, when the Central Labor Union organized a demonstration and picnic in New York City, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Eleven years later, more than 30 states had passed bills to adopt the Labor Day holiday, and in 1894, Congress passed a bill establishing Labor Day as a federal holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. A few labor statistics: 151 million employees compose the nations labor force 10.5 million workers are self-employed 7.5 million people work more than one job 5 million people work from home I had a coach years ago&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/labor-day-history\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-4t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":305,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/us-bureau-of-labor-statistics-website\/","url_meta":{"origin":277,"position":0},"title":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Website","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"September 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I had some fun bouncing around the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Website yesterday. 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