In 1947, Labor appointed a second Australian Governor-General, William McKell, who was in office as the Labor Premier of New South Wales.

The current Governor is Professor Marie Bashir, who has served since 1 March 2001 ; Labor Premier Bob Carr recommended her to replace former Justice Gordon Samuels.

The current Premier is Lara Giddings of the Australian Labor Party, who was sworn in on 24 January 2011.

Under a legalistic interpretation of the ALP rules, Seiffert was readmitted to the party and, together with the support of Geraghty, Premier James McGirr and Labor were able to stay in power.

At the March 1962 election, Labor had been in power for 21 years and Heffron had since been Premier for 2 and a half years.

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

South Australia's Governor is Kevin Scarce and its Premier is Jay Weatherill of the Australian Labor Party.

With no party having a clear majority, the independents agreed to support a minority Labor government which made Steve Bracks the first Catholic Labor Premier of Victoria since 1932.

Bracks ' Treasurer John Brumby was elected unopposed by the Victorian Labor Caucus as Premier, while Attorney-General Rob Hulls was elected Deputy Premier.

Founding leader Joseph Lyons began his political career as an Australian Labor Party politician and served as Premier of Tasmania.

A further split, this time of left-wing NSW Labor MPs who supported the unorthodox economic policies of NSW Premier Jack Lang, cost the Scullin government its parliamentary majority.

In January 1990, the Labor government of Premier John Cain tried to introduce economies into the running of the public transport system, including the removal of tram conductors.

He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931.

He led the Labor opposition in the Tasmanian Parliament until 1923 when he became Premier, leading a minority ALP government.

In March, at about the same time as Lyons led his group of defectors from the right of the Labor Party across the floor, 5 left-wing NSW Labor MPs, supporters of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang, also split from the official Labor Party over the government's economic policies ( for Lyons they had been too radical, for the Langites they were not radical enough ), forming a " Lang Labor " group on the cross-benches and costing the government its majority in the House of Representatives.

In 1916, New South Wales Premier William Holman was expelled from the Australian Labor Party for supporting conscription.

In 1932 the New South Wales Labor Premier, Jack Lang, refused to pay moneys owing to the Federal government, which froze the state's bank accounts, causing Lang to order that payments to the state government be only in cash.

In Chile most services and businesses are closed on both New Year's Day ( January 1 ) and Labor Day ( May 1 ).

Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945, ( 2005 ), ISBN 0-521-83416-3. online review

New for the 2005 election was the alliance between the newly formed Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ) and the PDS, planning to fuse into a common party ( see Left Party. PDS ).

* Maurice McTigue, former Minister for Labor in New Zealand

* New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile

" The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor ," Journal of American History Vol.

* A. C. Dunham, " The Knights of Labor ," New Englander and Yale Review, vol.

On 5 May 1955, union delegates gathered in New York on behalf of 16 million workers, to witness and support the merger of The American Federation of Labor and The Congress of Industrial Organization.

Returning to the United States, McGuire and the Knights of Labor organised a similar parade based on the Canadian event on September 5, 1882 in New York City, USA.

Labor Day Parade, Union Square, New York, 1882

* New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile

The National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935 as part of the New Deal legislation, guarantees workers the right to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.

* 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

The Nationals hold a larger membership base than either the Liberal or Labor Parties, although in the larger eastern states its vote is in decline and its traditional supporters are turning instead to prominent independents such as Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Peter Andren in Federal Parliament and similar independents in the Parliaments of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, many of whom are former members of the National Party.

In 2004, then Australian Labor leader Mark Latham described conservative calls for " civility " as " The New Political Correctness ".

Keating was first elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election as the Labor member for Blaxland in New South Wales.

He also developed a friendship and discussed politics with former New South Wales Labor premier Jack Lang, then in his 90s.

The standing of Heffron's government suffered when the electors rejected its proposal to abolish the New South Wales Legislative Council at a referendum in April 1961, being the first time Labor had lost a state electoral poll in 20 years.

* 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

New whistleblower statutes enacted by Congress which are to be enforced by the Secretary of Labor are generally delegated by a Secretary's Order to OSHA's Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program ( OWPP ).

* September 5 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

In the mid twentieth century, West Indians moved the timing of the New York area Carnival from the beginning of Lent to the Labor Day weekend.

In the state and territory parliaments, Labor governs in South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.

The Knights of Labor had a mixed history of inclusiveness and exclusiveness, accepting women and blacks ( after 1878 ) and their employers as members, and advocating the admission of blacks into local assemblies, but tolerating the segregation of assemblies in the South.

The Knights of Labor in the South.

In the United States, the minimum wage promulgated by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was intentionally set at a high, national level to render low-technology, low-wage factories in the South obsolete.

In South Australia, for the first time in the Nationals ' history, in 2002 the single Nationals member in the House of Assembly entered the Rann Labor Government as a Minister forming an informal coalition between the two parties.

Labor formed South Australia's first majority government after winning the 1910 state election, two weeks after federal Labor formed Australia's first majority government after winning the 1910 federal election.

Under proportional representation, Labor could win three of the five New South Wales seats, but if Murphy's seat was also contested, it was most unlikely to win four out of six.

* John Bannon, Labor Premier of South Australia, 1982 – 1992

* John Gunn, Labor Premier of South Australia, 1924 – 26

* When Hurricane Frances hit South Florida on Labor Day weekend ( over 100 miles north of Miami-Dade County ), 9, 800 Miami-Dade applicants were approved by FEMA for $ 21 million in storm claims for new furniture ; clothes ; thousands of new televisions, microwaves and refrigerators ; cars ; dental bills ; and a funeral even though the Medical Examiner recorded no deaths from Frances.

In August 1919, he became Private Secretary and speech writer to the politician John Storey, a prominent member of the centre-left Australian Labor Party that was then in opposition to the Nationalist government in the state of New South Wales.