Unemployment stood at 8.5 percent in Indiana in July, only slightly better than the national figure of 9.1 percent. And on Friday, a new jobs report showed no net gain of jobs in August, as whatever jobs were added in the private sector were erased by the jobs lost in the public sector.
At the same time as their members were losing jobs nationwide, unions saw their collective bargaining rights under attack in statehouses across the nation, including
Note EU-Digest: The Labor Day holiday was first proposed in 1882, according to the U. S. Department of Labor's website.
Some historians say Peter McGuire, the general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was first to suggest a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."
However, many historians credit Matthew Maguire, a machinist, with first suggesting the holiday. The first Labor Day in the US was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City under the guidance of the Central Labor Union.
According to labor statistics from 2009, here is a breakdown of the number of professionals in various fields.
- Firefighters: 258,000
- Hairdressers, hairstylists and cosmetologists: 718,000
- Chefs and head cooks: 281,000
- Musicians, singers and related workers: 179,000
- Bakers: 183,000
- Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 286,000
- Service station attendants: 96,000
- Farmers and ranchers: 825,000
- Pharmacists: 232,000
- Teachers: 6.5 million
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