Some of the state's biggest unions played a leading role in obtaining a $2.1-billion relief bill for hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic and were excluded from the American Rescue Plan.
The program, agreed to as part of the state budget deal, is the first of its kind.
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