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Labor Day: Workers Over Billionaires National Day of Action
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Labor Day came about because workers felt they were spending too many hours and days on the job. In the 1830s, manufacturing workers were putting in 70-hour weeks on average. Sixty years later, hours of work have dropped—although the average manufacturing worker still toiled in a factory 60 hours a week. The first official US Labor Day celebration took place on September 5, 1882, in New York City. Oregon was the first state of the United States to make it an official public holiday in 1887. It became an official federal holiday in 1894. Billionaires benefitted then—and still do—from the efforts of workers in their companies.
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