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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Six North Carolina migrant farm workers left a Walmart in Lincoln County with broken legs, broken ankles and concussions after a driver plowed his SUV through them in the parking lot around lunchtime Sunday. The driver left without stopping. Lincolnton police said they believe the driver intentionally struck the workers. A person of interest in the case was taken into custody Monday night after he came into the Lincolnton Police Department with a family member, police Major Brian Greene said. Greene did not release the man’s name nor did he discuss potential charges, but said......

Dwayne Johnson has stepped up for his fellow actors with a seven-figure donation to the fund helping keep striking artists afloat. “The Rock” is living up to his moniker with a gift that will help thousands of the actors who are losing income and don’t have funds to bridge the gap, SAG-AFTRA Foundation president Courtney B. Vance told Variety on Monday. The foundation is a nonprofit affiliated with the union headed by Fran Drescher. Actors were just emerging from the crisis engendered by the COVID pandemic when first the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike and then the SAG-AFTRA strike hit. ......

The United Farm Workers just had its biggest unionizing success in years, and it didn’t happen in California. In a first for the historic labor union, it organized nearly 500 workers at five farms in New York. The victories, which will increase UFW’s membership by 8%, come four years after a state law passed giving farm workers the right to organize. “For us, it’s proof of concept that when you change the laws, workers can win,” said Antonio De Loera-Brust, a UFW spokesperson. Like many unions, UFW has struggled to organize over the last few decades, its membership dwindling from 60,000 to aro......

PHILADELPHIA — The AFL-CIO will endorse President Joe Biden ahead of his rally with union members in Philadelphia on Saturday, according to two sources familiar with the plan. The vote of the general board, which represents 12.5 million members and 60 affiliated unions, is slated to happen Friday on a Zoom call. Biden will speak to union members at the Convention Center on Saturday, marking the first political event of his presidential reelection campaign. The endorsement isn’t a surprise — the union also backed Biden’s 2020 presidential bid — but it comes about a year earlier than the vote la......

NEW YORK — A New York City Fire Department chief who oversaw a fireboat involved in a fatal East River crash last year has been forced to turn in his retirement papers, court papers reveal. Chief Richard Blatus was FDNY’s acting chief of operations at the time of the June 17, 2022, incident that took the life of Johnny Beernaert, a Belgian firefighter aboard the fireboat Marine 1 Bravo on a tour in the East River. A month after the crash, Blatus was moved to another position. He eventually put in papers for his retirement, which sources said took formal effect Thursday. A lawsuit filed by a gr......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers will once again introduce legislation that could ban imposing forced labor on inmates. This effort to amend state’s Constitution was rejected last year when lawmakers failed to pass it through the Assembly. Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Democrat, announced Wednesday the reintroduction of the measure called End Slavery in California Act during a news conference at the State Capitol West. Wilson was joined by other members of the Legislature as well as a coalition of sponsors such as Anti-Recidivism Coalition, All of Us or None, Anti-Violence, Safety, & ......