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    Vol. 68/No. 8           March 1, 2004 
 
 
Florida garment workers celebrate one-year
anniversary of victory in union organizing drive
Militant/Steve Wolf

OAKLAND PARK, Florida—Workers at Point Blank Body Armor gather outside the plant February 10 to share cake and celebrate the one-year anniversary of their victory in a six-month strike in defense of the UNITE union. The unionists took down their picket line after the National Labor Relations Board ordered the company to rehire three fired union activists and take back strikers. In addition to the cake and rally, they marked the anniversary by distributing scores of hand-made miniature brooms with a red ribbon reading, “Happy Anniversary Feb. 10 2003—Feb. 10, 2004 Broom Day.” Raquel Chavez said, “We call it Broom Day because when we came back into work after the strike, they gave us all brooms and made us clean up the plant.” While complying with the order, Point Blank still refuses to recognize UNITE and has appealed NLRB rulings that ordered it to fork out back pay and cease harassing unionists.

—STEVE WOLF
 
 
 
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