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Major League Baseball has paid $185 million to settle a lawsuit by minor leaguers.

The vote on Friday signaled another win for the labor movement

The Apple store unionization vote comes against a backdrop of other labor organizing efforts nationwide — some of them rebuffed.

Amazon has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its workers to organize freely and without retaliation.

The city’s 3,000 teachers walked off the job to demand higher pay, smaller classes and more school resources.

Melissa Unger, executive director of SEIU Local 503 in Oregon, said the union chose to settle the lawsuit rather than go through a costly and time-consuming legal battle.

The Oregon lawsuit was supported by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which is handling some 200 other cases across the country, including a class-action lawsuit in California by 30,000 state employees.

The changes come at a time when there's growing concern for hourly workers. Thousands of workers have staged protests to call attention to their financial struggles and to fight for hourly pay of $15. The November election of a Republican-controlled Congress dampened hopes of an increase in the $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage. But advocates have continued to press for boosts on the state and local level.

Under the ruling, home care agencies and other third-party employers can continue denying minimum wage and overtime pay to workers who provide primarily “fellowship and protection” as opposed to more extensive care.

Scores of school worker unions mustered enough member votes in this year's re-certification elections to go on representing the employees in wage negotiations, according to data state labor relations officials released Thursday.