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Workers Memorial Day Reminds Us Why We Need Unions and Worker Safety Laws
… history, the subject I taught in a community college for two dozen years, could hardly be louder or clearer when it comes to unions and to worker safety and health laws. We need them both. … In an ideal world, everybody would live by the Golden … in the United States. Not until the 1930s did a Democratic-majority New Deal Congress pass legislation giving workers the right to bargain collectively and requiring their employers to recognize unions. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, … labor was widespread in American industry. Adults were so poorly paid that boys and girls as young as 10 had to go to work to help their parents make ends meet. Industrialists praised child labor as a godsend. They claimed work taught …