MSNBCW Weekends With Alex Witt February 9, 2019
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 40hour week. Thats right. Thats right. Because of the workers right here in lawrence and all across the country, we have weekends. The story of lawrence is a story a...
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