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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 07:14 PM
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1. What a struggle this has been..
Another speaker, Vanessa Reeves, worked for years on the plant’s kill floor, removing the spinal cords from hogs. “As the hogs come down the line, they bump up against you and sometimes fall on you,” she said.

“That’s what happened to me on May 29,” she said. “I went to the ER. I had a miscarriage. I lost my baby in the hospital, and they fired me for being off the job.”

“The only way these people will get help is to get them a union,” said Jim Lowther, president of UFCW Local 400.


So much for those compassionate conservative/culture of life Republicans down in Bible country!..
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