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Article: 11 set hunger strike over pay at stadium: Living wage sought for cleaners at Yard.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2007
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Byline: Hanah Cho
Aug. 16--Luis Larin once fasted six days to protest rising electricity rates in his native Guatemala.
Now a day laborer in Baltimore, Larin is among 11 current and former temporary workers who will begin a hunger strike Sept. 3 to secure higher wages for those who pick up the trash at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
"We think it's the only way we'll get attention and get a living wage for workers," Larin said through a Spanish interpreter.
The hunger strike announced yesterday is the latest move by the United Workers Association to pressure the Maryland Stadium Authority to meet its demand for better pay.
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