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Article: Striking Sanitation Workers Demand Justice on Anniversary of King's Death.
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- April 4, 2006
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Teamsters Fighting for Fairness 38 Years Later, Hoffa Says
WASHINGTON, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Thirty-eight years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., sanitation workers on strike against Waste Management Inc. are still fighting to win dignity and respect on the job. King was killed on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, where he went to demand justice for sanitation workers.
More than 100 Teamsters from Local 813 in New York and more than 85 from Local 639 in Washington, D.C., were forced to strike Monday against the country's largest private waste hauler to protest attempts to slash their wages, retirement benefits and health insurance. ...