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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Thursday, July 29, 2004 ::
Area Steelworkers plugged in, Plight of industry gets national spotlight By PAUL M. KRAWZAK, Copley News Service
BOSTON – Stark County, O., took center stage at the Democratic National Convention Monday night as two Timken Co. workers appeared via a satellite hookup to urge delegates from all over the nation to elect Sen. John F. Kerry president.
“Every time somebody loses their job their family suffers,” said Bill Wright, vice president at United Steelworkers of America Local 1123 in Canton, in the live broadcast to Boston.
“Our county and our city are suffering and nobody in Washington, D.C., is listening.”
As Wright spoke from the Canton union hall, thousands of delegates watched him on a huge red and blue screen above the convention stage.
Wright works at one of three Timken bearing plants employing 1,300 workers, which the company plans to close. Kerry has criticized the company and urged President Bush to intervene.------------------------------------------- posted 6:37 AM :: reference link ::
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