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UNITE workers come to Cincinnati from South, Midwest to picket Fingerhut |
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| Some 175 workers at mail-order firm Fingerhut picket the headquarters of Federated Department Stores--Fingerhut's parent company--in downtown Cincinnati on February 11. The workers, organized by the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), had traveled from Minnesota and Tennessee to protest the bosses' actions in winding down Fingerhut's operations in preparations for its sale. Many of the company's 6,000 workers have been idled or laid off. |