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Teamsters Strike Basic Vegetable Products.


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Lupe Vasquez, who has worked at Basic Vegetable Products for thirty-one years, has been on strike against the company since July 7. She and other members of Teamsters Teamsters

large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703]

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 Local 890 opposed the garlic and onion dehydrating company when it imposed a wage freeze, a two-tier wage system, a change in the pension plan, and an increase in the co-pay for health insurance. For more information, contact BVP BVP

bovine viral papillomatosis.
 Strikers, c/o Teamsters Local 890, 207 North Sanborn Rd., Salinas Salinas, city, United States
Salinas (səlē`nəs), city (1990 pop. 108,777), seat of Monterey co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. It is the shipping and processing center of a fertile valley famous for its grain and lettuce.
, CA 93905, or call (831) 424-5743, or visit the local's web site at www.teamsters890.org/strike.
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Publication:The Progressive
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U9CA
Date:Dec 1, 1999
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