September 5, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Private-sector payroll employment edges up in August
In the private
sector, employment edged up by 17,000 in August, seasonally adjusted, as a
strike in the communications industry kept 87,000 workers off payrolls.
![Over-the-month change in payroll employment, total, total private, and government, June-August 2000 (seasonally adjusted)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925022455im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/Sept/wk1/art01.gif)
[Chart data—TXT]
Adjusted for the net strike impact over the
month, private-sector employment was up by 102,000 in August. The net
strike impact was 85,000, which reflects the return of a small number of
strikers in hospitals as well as the communications industry strike.
Total nonfarm payroll employment declined
by 105,000 to 131.5 million in August. In the public sector, 158,000
temporary workers completed their work on Census 2000 and left federal
payrolls.
These data are a product of the BLS Current
Employment Statistics Program. Find
out more in "The
Employment Situation: August 2000,"
news release USDL 00-252.
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