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    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
    Cesar Chavez

    :: Monday, April 11, 2005 ::

    Fourth worker killed in Mixing Bowl effort The Free Lance-Star, VA
    In June 2002, a 24-year-old North Carolina man working for Cress Welding, a subcontractor of Shirley Contracting, fell 100 feet into a drainage ditch when his safety harness snapped. In May 2002, a Lane Construction worker fell to his death from a scaffold onto the CSX train tracks. And in October 2001, a Shirley Contracting employee was crushed by a large tractor's shovel scoop.
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