ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Hundreds of workers took to Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta on Labor Day to demonstrate for fairer pay and better worker representation.

The event was part of thousands of similar protests nationwide on Monday, all calling for better worker rights from Chicago to Boston to Washington, D.C.

The “Workers Over Billionaires” protests were primarily organized by the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of labor unions. The message was especially resounding in Georgia, a right-to-work state with provisions that bar membership to a union as a condition of employment. It makes unions extremely hard to establish in the state.

“They’re taking away laborers’ rights, the ability to organize, to unionize,” said Laura Judge with Indivisible North, another of

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