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We have a double dose of good labor news ahead of Labor Day! First, the Biden-Harris administration is proposing a new rule that would extend overtime pay to as many as 3.6 million workers! This change would require employers to pay overtime to salaried workers who are in executive, administrative, and professional roles but make less than $1,059 a week, or $55,068 a year for full-time employees. This is a win for working families everywhere!
Second, the United Farm Workers—which has seen its membership drop from 60,000 to 6,000—successfully unionized 500 workers at five farms in New York. This win shows the power of collective bargaining in securing better wages and working conditions for farmworkers, who are the backbone of our food system (and, more generally speaking, immigrants—who make up more than 70% of farmworkers in the U.S.—have always been part of the backbone of the labor movement).
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