CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield February 9, 2019
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 40hour work. Thats right. Because of the workers right here in lawrence and across the country, we have weekends. The story of lawyerance renc...
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