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Workers battling factory closure

Planned shutdown to displace 350 in New Bedford

By Brian MacQuarrie
Globe Staff / June 21, 2009

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Scores of low-wage workers from a New Bedford factory that makes Army backpacks gathered for an emotional meeting yesterday with elected officials, clergy, and labor activists to demand that the 350-employee plant not be shuttered next month as planned. (Full article: 581 words)

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