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    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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    :: Thursday, January 19, 2006 ::

    Organized labor rallies against 'right to work' proposal - By BRUCE SCHREINER, AP Wire
    FRANKFORT, Ky. - Hundreds of union members booed Gov. Ernie Fletcher on Tuesday as organized labor vowed to flex its political muscle to defeat a proposal championed by Fletcher to open union-represented workplaces to nonunion workers.

    'The governor started it, we're going to finish it - punch for punch, dollar for dollar,' Kentucky State AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan said as union workers filled the Capitol Rotunda, just a few steps from Fletcher's office.
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