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Linen factory picketed

Contributing Reporter
Published Thursday, November 16, 2006

Blowing whistles and shouting slogans, a crowd of laundry workers, labor organizers, city residents and Yale students protested what they called squalid and potentially illegal working conditions at New England Linen Supply’s New Haven factory on Wednesday afternoon.

Chanting catchphrases like “No contract, no peace” and “The people united will never be conquered” alternately in Spanish and English, 110 protesters — including a trio of New England Linen Supply workers — marched up and down Derby Avenue. UNITE HERE, an international labor organization that represents approximately...

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