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“It’s absolutely essential,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in an interview.

California has become the fourth and largest state to adopt emergency workplace protections for COVID-19. Nearly 20 million workers in California will be protected by the new mandate, which includes requirements for face masks, physical distancing and reporting of outbreaks in the workplace.

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Trece Andrews spent the last three months phone-banking and sometimes canvassing for Joe Biden in Michigan.

Democrat Joe Biden gained more of the vote from members of the AFL-CIO than Hillary Clinton did four years ago, its president said, crediting laborers for the party’s wins in key states.