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Article: Here's Virginia News Network's afternoon actuality billboard for.
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- April 7, 1999
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Tuesday, April 6th, 199(:
1-3...The steelworkers'strike at Newport News Shipbuilding is hitting taxpayers where it hurts...in the wallet. The Newport News Police Department reports it's costing 40-thousand-dollars a week in staff overtime to provide added security on the picket lines.
1...Police Spokeswoman Janet Cox... Cart # Cox 1 :13/extra duties TAG: Cox says state troopers are also helping in the effort to keep picket lines free of violence. During the last shipyard strike...20 years ago...violence broke out on the last day of the walkout.
2...Police Spokesman Janet Cox says the strike is also having a ripple-effect.
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