Unions have also played a role in registering voters and making sure they have time to vote. Workers at Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, which are members of the United Auto Workers, have had this provision in their contracts since the 1990s.
Schools close down in Michigan on that day, so teachers can vote, even though Michigan is a state that doesn’t require employers to give their workers any time off.
“This is essentially saying look we want to make this as easy as possible,” Harley Shaiken, a labor historian at the University of California at Berkeley, said. “The difficulty should be in making your decision.”
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