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Mariah Parker performs as Linqua Franqa.

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With their latest album 'Bellringer,' hip-hop artist Linqua Franqa captures the essence of 2022

If you wanted an album that perfectly captured 2022, you’d be hard pressed to find a better one than “Bellringer,” the latest full-length release from Georgia musician Mariah Parker, performing as Linqua Franqa. 

December 29, 2022
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  • Peter Biello
This job posting from Citi with a $2 million salary range caught attention on social media.

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  • Your Money

The big reveal: New laws require companies to disclose pay ranges on job postings.

On Nov. 1, New York joined a handful of places across the country that require companies to disclose salary ranges when they post jobs. But transparency isn't easy.

November 06, 2022
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By:
  • Stacey Vanek Smith
David Williams is a stocker at a Dollar General store in New Orleans. He's pushing for better work conditions and pay at his store with help from Step Up Louisiana.

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  • Business

Dollar store workers in the South have a labor movement. Just don't call it a union

Unions aren't popular in the South. That's one reason why a labor organizing campaign at Dolllar General stores in Louisiana doesn't use the u-word.

September 03, 2022
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By:
  • Stephan Bisaha
FILE - The Apple logo adorns the facade of a retail store. More than 100 employees of an Apple store in a suburb of Baltimore voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, June 18, 2022.

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  • National

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, joining a growing push across U.S. industries to organize for workplace protections.

June 19, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Democratic debate for Labor Commission

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  • Elections

Democrats in runoff for Georgia Labor Commissioner ding GOP incumbent

The initial pandemic shutdowns of 2020 caused Georgia businesses to lay off workers in record-breaking numbers, leading to record-breaking problems for people trying to receive unemployment insurance benefits. Jobless Georgians reported unanswered calls for help and months-long wait times for approval.

June 10, 2022
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  • Ross Williams
A Trader Joe's in Hadley, Mass., has filed for a union election and would become the first unionized store in the chain if successful.

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  • Business

Trader Joe's workers in Massachusetts file to create chain's first union

Employees at a Trader Joe's in Hadley, Mass., have filed to hold a union election. If the vote is successful, it will create the first union in the nationwide chain.

June 09, 2022
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  • Jacqueline GaNun
A man uses his mobile phone near an Apple store logo in Beijing.

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  • National

Apple workers in Atlanta become company's 1st retail workers to file to unionize

Communications Workers of America, the retail workers' union, said big tech companies like Apple fail to give employees who don't work in an office equal standing and respect.

April 21, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
Alabama coal miners rally at a local ballpark in Brookwood. They've been on strike against Warrior Met Coal since April 1.

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  • Economy

Unions have enthusiasm, media spotlight. But membership numbers lag

Strikes and organizing efforts at high-profile companies have generated new enthusiasm for organized labor. But numbers tell a different story. Union membership is tied for the lowest level on record.

January 28, 2022
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  • Stephan Bisaha
A droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine last year at a hospital in Providence, R.I.

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  • Health

A N.Y. Hospital Will Stop Delivering Babies As Workers Quit Over A Vaccine Mandate

Lewis County General Hospital in upstate New York is pausing maternity services later this month after dozens of staff members quit because they refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

September 13, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization hold a rally on Aug. 6, 1981, on Long Island, N.Y. Nearly 13,000 air-traffic controllers walked off the job and most were fired by President Ronald Reagan after refusing to return to work.

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  • History

Here Are 3 Pivotal Moments In Workers' History To Remember This Labor Day

From a deadly factory fire to a presidential showdown with strikers, these major labor events became central to U.S. history, the modern labor movement and the rights afforded to workers.

September 04, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A server delivers food to customers dining at a restaurant in Los Angeles on Aug. 7. Restaurants are boosting pay to attract workers, and that could have an impact on already-high inflation.

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  • Economy

Wages Are Going Up — And So Is Inflation. Consumer Prices Have Hit A 13-Year High

Consumer prices rose 5.4% in July, compared to a year ago. Here's one thing to watch going forward: How rising wages impacts inflation.

August 11, 2021
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  • Scott Horsley
Two doctors with blue hairnets, blue medical scrubs, and masks stand in front of an orange medical tent surrounded by orange traffic cones.

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  • Health

As Vulnerable Populations Confront COVID-19 Realities, Doctors Go 'Beyond The Exam Room' To Help

A frontline doctor and advocate for Georgia's immigrant and refugee populations on supporting and encouraging some of the people most vulnerable to COVID-19.

August 27, 2020
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By:
  • Pria Mahadevan and
  • Virginia Prescott
Armando Negron and Bellaliz Gonzalez were recovery workers in Midland, Mich., after two dam collapses flooded the area.

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  • National

'We Were Treated Worse Than Animals': Disaster Recovery Workers Confront COVID-19

Disaster recovery workers cleaning up after major flooding in Michigan tested positive for the coronavirus. The outbreak shined a light on working conditions in the fast-growing industry.

July 09, 2020
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Marisa Peñaloza

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