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30 Victories for Workers’ Rights Won By Organized Labor
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 Sept. 2, 2022 | LABOR HISTORY | (Click image to enlarge.) Today, American workers have a host of rights and resources should their workplace be hostile or harmful. While the modern labor movement works to continue to improve the working conditions for all, with big efforts around a fair minimum wage and the end of employer wage theft, the movement has a history rich with fights and wins. It put an end to child labor, 10-to-16 hour workdays, and unsafe working conditions. Today, every wage-earning American owes a debt of gratitude to organized labor. The gratitude is owed mostly to the unions, those nameless and disposable workers organized, which they did under the threat of being fired, harassed, evicted from company homes, beaten, jailed, and, in many cases, killed. LIHerald.com PHOTO/TEAMSTERS STRIKE 1934
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