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Tyson Pulls the Plug on 2,500 Jobs · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  they pulled up into the parking lot, uh, some of them went into
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  the plant cafeteria, um, and they found that the plant operations
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  were completely shut down.
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  this is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, September 23rd.
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  these two, uh, shift supervisors came out just, like, crying.
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  Um, and Tyson promptly announced to all of these, you know, hundreds of
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  workers that had shown up for their shift that day that the plant was
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  gonna be closed effective immediately.
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  Labor and trade unionists in Chicago launched the United Labor Party, calling
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  for an eight-hour day, government ownership of telegraph and telephone
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