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Article: Reality bites the labor movement.(Rundles Wrap-Up)
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- ColoradoBiz
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- September 1, 2004
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FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS IN JULY, I was lucky enough to enjoy a family vacation, and we went back to the same place in Northern Michigan where we have vacationed now for seven straight summers. It was a slice of heaven.
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But for the third year in a row I happened to notice that nurses were still on strike at the local hospital, and a handmade sign on the way into town proudly proclaimed the strike to be the longest one in the country.
I don't know about you, but I'm thinking that a labor action that has gone on for three summers, more than two years' time, might be misnamed a "strike."
These people are not on ...