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Labor Day

As we mark another Labor Day, all Americans should be proud of how the hard work and sacrifice of so many people have long made U.S. productivity the envy of the world. For our nation’s construction workers, that productivity provides us with new roads and bridges and buildings and other structures...
Labor Day graphic
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It’s the end of a three-day weekend for the territory, as American Samoa joins the rest of the nation today to mark the Labor Day holiday - which is both a local and federal holiday. “Labor Day is a time to honor and recognize the labor movement and all laborers for...
Scene from The Salt of the Earth
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA — Unions are more popular now than at any time since 1965, and the U.S. is in the midst of a new upsurge of union organizing. Is a Hollywood drama about angry Starbucks baristas or frustrated Amazon warehouse workers far behind? Hollywood studios and independent producers...
Congresswoman Aumua Amata
Pago Pago —  Monday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata released the following statement for Labor Day 2020: "This year’s economic interruptions helped emphasize how everyone’s job is important, and what a blessing a job can be. Many jobs are part of the food and supply chain, or important to the survival...
A waiter in a face mask delivers food to the tables outside of a restauran
The United States is today celebrating Labor Day, a commemoration with origins dating back to the late 19th century. The national holiday is celebrated every year on the first Monday in September in the US, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Canal Zone and the Virgin Islands. Canada also...
Some participants in Workfoce Day 2016.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG’s Workforce Day took place today, prior to Labor Day, which is Monday. Monday is an ASG and federal holiday with non-essential gov’t employees on break and banks and the post office closed. Meanwhile many local businesses will be open featuring Labor Day sales across...
What a great gift the governor is giving the Territory’s labor force — proposed legislation to increase the salaries of governor and lt. gov. — $15,000 and $10,000 respectively. He’s citing inflation and the top leaders of the territory not receiving a pay raise in a long time. The timing of this...