Annie's "Labor Day History & Information" Page
Jesus said, "Come unto me, all
ye that labour and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest"
~Matthew 11:28~
Labor Day will be celebrated on
Monday September 6th, 2010
~In both the United States and Canada~
"Every man's work shall be made
manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall
be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of
what sort it is. If any
man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive
a reward. If
any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
~1 Corinthians 3:13-15~
"Man goeth forth unto his work
and to his labour until the evening.
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast
thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches."
~Psalm 104:23-24~
United States Department of Labor
"And he called his name Noah,
saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our work
and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath
cursed."
~Genesis 5:29~
The
Department of Labor, is an executive department of the United
States government
that works to promote the welfare of wage earners. The department
seeks to improve the
economic position of workers in the United States, to better
their working conditions,
and to advance their opportunities for employment.
The secretary
of labor, a member of the President's Cabinet, heads the
department.
The President appoints the secretary subject to the approval of
the U.S. Senate.
Functions. The Department of Labor
administers federal laws on minimum wages, overtime,
child labor, and migrant workers and determines wage rates for
work done under
government contracts. A Labor Department agency called the
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) develops and enforces
job safety and health standards for most U.S. industries.
"Even a child is known by his
doings, whether his work [be] pure,
and whether [it be] right."
~Proverbs 20:11~
The
Labor Department administers federal laws on workers'
compensation programs and enforces legal standards for the
funding and operation of private pension and welfare plans.
It also oversees the nation's unemployment insurance
programs.
The department works to reduce unemployment by providing
job training for disadvantaged young men and women. The
department helps people find jobs through programs
administered by one of its agencies, the United States
Employment Service. The department also gives local
governments funds to establish and maintain their own job
training programs for disadvantaged and unemployed people. In
addition, it develops
apprenticeship standards for the training of skilled workers.
The Labor
Department enforces federal regulations that require businesses
doing work for
the U.S. government to maintain nondiscriminatory hiring and
employment practices. These
regulations are designed to guarantee equal employment
opportunity to ethnic minorities,
women, disabled people, and veterans.
The
department administers laws that require the fair election of
labor leaders and the
publication of accurate union financial reports. In addition, it
promotes cooperation
between labor unions and employers.
Another important Labor Department function is that of serving as
the government's chief
fact-finding agency in the field of labor economics. The
department's Bureau of Labor
Statistics collects, analyzes, and publishes information on
employment and unemployment,
wages and industrial relations, occupational safety and health,
and productivity and
technology. The bureau prepares the Consumer Price Index (CPI),
the most widely used
measurement of price trends in the United States.
"What profit hath a man of all
his labour which he taketh under the sun?"
~Eccelesiastes 1:3~
History. In 1884, Congress
established a Bureau of Labor in the Department of the
Interior. In 1888, Congress gave the bureau independent status as
the Department of
Labor. In 1903, Congress established the new Department of
Commerce and Labor and
made the Department of Labor a bureau in it.
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed a law creating an
independent Department of
Labor. The office of secretary of labor became the first
Cabinet-level office to be
occupied by a woman when Frances Perkins was appointed to the
post in 1933.
"That ye might walk worthy of
the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good
work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;"
~Colossians 1:10~
#
IMPORTANT UNITED STATES LABOR UNIONS -10 Largest +1 from 1995 |
|
Name - Alphabetically | Membership |
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees | 1,300,000 |
American Federation of Teachers | 850,000 |
Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Brotherhood of | 600,000 |
Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood of | 803,000 |
Laborers' International Union of North America | 700,000 |
Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Int. Association of | 870,000 |
National Education Association of the United States (Ind.) | 2,000,000 |
Service Employees International Union | 1,000,000 |
Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, International Brotherhood of |
1,400,000 |
United
Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, International Union |
1,400,000 |
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union | 1,400,000 |
Sources:
Representatives of individual labor unions; Encyclopedia of Associations Copyright (c) 1995, Gale Research Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. And taken from: The World Book Encyclopedia |
|
#Union is
AFL-CIO affiliated unless indicated as Independent (Ind.). |
"Jesus
answered and said unto them, This is the work of God,
that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."
~John 6:29~
|
SECRETARIES OF LABOR |
|
Name |
Took Office |
Under President |
William B. Wilson | 1913 | Wilson |
James J. Davis | 1921 | Harding,
Coolidge, Hoover |
William N. Doak | 1930 | Hoover |
Frances Perkins | 1933 | F.
D. Roosevelt, Truman |
Lewis
B. Schwellenbach |
1945 | Truman |
Maurice J. Tobin | 1948 | Truman |
Martin P. Durkin | 1953 | Eisenhower |
James P. Mitchell | 1953 | Eisenhower |
Arthur J. Goldberg | 1961 | Kennedy |
W. Willard Wirtz | 1962 | Kennedy,
L. B. Johnson |
George P. Shultz | 1969 | Nixon |
James D. Hodgson | 1970 | Nixon |
Peter J. Brennan | 1973 | Nixon, Ford |
John T. Dunlop | 1975 | Ford |
W. J. Usery, Jr. | 1976 | Ford |
Ray Marshall | 1977 | Carter |
Raymond J. Donovan | 1981 | Reagan |
William
E. Brock III |
1985 | Reagan |
Ann
Dore McLaughlin |
1987 | Reagan |
Elizabeth H. Dole | 1989 | Bush |
Lynn Martin | 1991 | Bush |
Robert B. Reich | 1993 | Clinton |
Alexis M. Herman | 1997 | Clinton |
Source
for above table: The World Book Encyclopedia
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