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New York’s Locked-Out Utility Workers Try to Beat the Heat

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New York City’s utility company locked out 8,500 workers in a summer heat wave, attacking pensions and health care. Members chanted and cheered on pickets as the union questioned replacements’ safety training.

Read more: http://labornotes.org/2012/07/new-york%E2%80%99s-locked-out-utility-workers-try-beat-heat

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