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Charlie LeDuff: Blue-collar Workers Hanging on by Thread

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The workers punch the clock at precisely 7:30 a.m., not a minute later since they would be docked 14 minutes and nobody in America works 14 minutes for free. A quiet resignation settles over them as the roar of the screw grinding machines rev up. Want it or not, they need to be here. After this place, there is no place. Not in today's America.
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Retired, Robert Arend was president of an AFSCME local from 1997-2007.
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