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On Black History Month, delegate links historic labor injustice to modern wage gaps and presses for worker protections
Summary
During Black History Month remarks on Feb. 17, Delegate McFloor described historical injustices affecting Black labor in Virginia and argued for legislation to extend fair pay and protections to farmworkers and other excluded workers.
On Feb. 17 during morning remarks in the Virginia House, Delegate McFloor used the Black History Month setting to trace the continuity from slavery and Jim Crow–era labor exclusions to modern wage disparities and urged lawmakers to write laws that restore economic dignity.
McFloor said the legacy of involuntary labor and subsequent discriminatory laws shaped economic outcomes for Black Virginians. He noted that even after emancipation many freed people were pushed into sharecropping, subject to predatory contracts and excluded from labor protections. "The injustices of the past do not simply disappear with time. They echo forward, shaping the present," McFloor said.
He cited a recent statistic, attributing it on…
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