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By Louise Donovan, The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowly losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California, shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid o...

And its taking down workers at both ends. Dec 22nd, 2020 Louise Donovan, The Fuller Project Alexandra Orozco stands for a portrait outside of the closed J.C. Penney where she was laid off from, in Delano, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Orozco began working part-time at the department store when she was 18, and in nearly four years rose through the ranks from cashier to freight team associate. Madeline Tolle/The Fuller Project via AP In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C...

Everybody back at work. those workers did more than change their own lives. they changed america. within weeks, more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout new england got wages. within months, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to mass a minimum wage law. and today there are no children working in factfactories. we have a national minimum wage and national workers safety laws. workers get paid overtime. and we now have a 40-hour work. thats right. because of the ...

Working conditionings were horrible. children were forced to operate dangerous equipment. workers lost hands and arms and legs in the gears of machines. one out of every three adult mill workers died by the time they were 25. and then on january 11, 1912, a group of women who worked right here at the everett mill, discovered that their bosses had cut their pay. and that was it. the women said enough is enough. they shut down those looms and they walked out. and soon workers walked out of another...

Inside mills, working conditions were horrible, children were forced to operate dangerous equipment. workers lost hands and arms and legs in the gears of machines. one out of every three adult mill workers died by the time they were 25 and then on january 11th, 1912, a group of women who worked right here at the everett mill discovered that their bosses had cut their pay and that was it. the women said, enough is enough! [cheers] >> they shut down those looms and they walked out. and soon worker...

High wages, overtime pay, everybody back at work and those workers did more than improve their own lives, they changed america. within weeks more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout new england got raises. within months, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a minimum wage law [cheers and applause] and today there are no children working in factories. [cheers] we have national minimum wage and national worker safety laws. ewould get paid overtime and we no...

And those workers did more than improve their own lives. they changed america. within weeks, more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout new england got raises. within months, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a minimum wage law. and today, there are no children working in factories. we have a national minimum wage and national worker safety laws. workers get paid overtime and we now have a 40-hour week. thats right. thats right. because of the workers ri...

When looking at 9% unemployment around the can trin. you have contracts to build light rail or street cars that are going to be going up in houston and atlanta. are these temporary gigs or for people could these be the start of long-term careers for folks? >> i think they can definitely be the start of long term careers in places like sacramento where were expanding our light rail facility n charlotte where were building a new gas turban plant, were spending money retraining people. in charlotte...

seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. >> thats right. in fact, were waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. thats the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. >> strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out o...

All the violence that has come has come from the regime. the protesters here have defended themselves against that violence. but as they continue to remain peaceful and they plan to march to make their voices heard tomorrow, as one protester told me they will take cairo bit by bit if they have to until mubarak leaves. >> sharif, there was a a story printed in "the l.a. times" within the last 24 hours that said that the root of all of this is labor. did this whole thing start because of labor iss...