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Lynn labor protests at Walmart to keep jobs in America

By | February 21, 2021
Justin Richards, the business agent for IUE-CWA 102, hands petitions to shoppers leaving Walmart on the Lynnway. The goal of the petitions is to stop Walmart from moving the production of GE LED lightbulbs out of the U.S. and overseas to China. (Spenser Hasak)
LYNN — Members of IUE-CWA Local 201, along with allies from the North Shore Labor Council, protested in front of Walmarts in Lynn and Salem Saturday to protest what they call the offshoring of union jobs. The focus of the event was on a GE-Savant lighting facility in Bucyrus, Ohio, whose workers recently were notified…
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