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By Herbert White for the Charlotte Post, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for North Carolina News Service reporting for the Charlotte Post-Public News Service Collaboration. Unions have impacted every American worker. From laws that curb the use of child labor to the 40-hour work week and holidays off, organized labor demanded - on occasion forced - governments and corporations to provide benefits and protections most people take for granted. ...

Even With Thinning Ranks, Unions Organize for Change. Second in a series. Unions have impacted every American worker. From laws that curb the use of child labor to the 40-hour work week and holidays off, organized labor demanded – on occasion forced –...

Paid leave remains one of the bigger issues being considered in the Minnesota Legislature this session. More testimony is expected this week, as lawmakers hear different perspectives on establishing this benefit statewide. A House committee will discuss a bill Thursday that would require employers to offer up to 12 weeks of medical leave and up to a dozen weeks of family leave. ...

President Joe Biden visited the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin on Wednesday to promote his economic agenda and strengthen his ties to working-class voters. Men and women in orange shirts and hard hats greeted Biden at the Laborers' Apprenticeship and Training Center in DeForest with a banner reading, "Union strong." Sarah Varga, a laborer apprentice for Laborers International Union of North America Local 464, introduced the president and said Biden's policies are helping workers like her reach their potential. "We will be getting more money for the t...

By Herbert White for the Charlotte Post, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for North Carolina News Service reporting for the Charlotte Post-Public News Service Collaboration. Naomi Harris was fed up with work. At a Mod Pizza store in Columbia, S.C., Harris despaired at the lack of air conditioning in the kitchen, racial bias in staffing and homophobic and racist language by management. ...