{"id":439,"date":"2025-09-01T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=439"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:49:39","slug":"september-3-2012-labor-day-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/09\/01\/september-3-2012-labor-day-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"September 1, 2025: Labor Day (USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/labor-day-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-698\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/labor-day-2014.jpg\" alt=\"labor day 2014\" width=\"231\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>Labor Day<\/strong>\u00a0is an\u00a0<a title=\"Federal holidays in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States\">American federal holiday<\/a>\u00a0observed on the first Monday in September that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers. \u00a0In 1882, Matthew Maguire, a machinist, first proposed the holiday while serving as secretary of the CLU (<a title=\"Central Labor Union\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_Labor_Union\">Central Labor Union<\/a>) of New York.<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Others argue that it was first proposed by\u00a0<a title=\"Peter J. McGuire\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_J._McGuire\">Peter J. McGuire<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a title=\"American Federation of Labor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Federation_of_Labor\">American Federation of Labor<\/a>\u00a0in May 1882,\u00a0after witnessing the annual\u00a0<a title=\"Labour Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labour_Day#Canada\">labor festival<\/a>\u00a0held in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day\u00a0is an\u00a0American federal holiday\u00a0observed on the first Monday in September that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers. \u00a0In 1882, Matthew Maguire, a machinist, first proposed the holiday while serving as secretary of the CLU (Central Labor Union) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/09\/01\/september-3-2012-labor-day-usa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}