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    :: Monday, August 22, 2005 ::

    A voice for workers - Daily Press, VA
    Letters to the editor responding to a letter about labor unions

    Unions Outlived Usefulness? Write a letter! - By Jordan Barab, Confined Space
    Last weekend I responded here to an anti-union letter to the editor in the Hampton Roads (VA) Daily Press. I also sent roughly the same response to the paper as a letter to the editor. Lo and behold, the paper not only published my letter, but two even better letters as well.
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