Rapier walks me into the two-story home he shares with at least six other packing plant workers.

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In multiple restructurings, Hurd sent packing thousands of HP workers and he cut base pay for many of those who remained.

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According to the workers, the packing department was staffed mostly by women.

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The association also protects workers in the horticultural, shellfish gathering and associated processing and packing industries.

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An apple packing company in Washington State is settling a lawsuit alleging that it hired illegal workers.

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Workers came under threat of redundancy after parent company PepsiCo announced plans to install new packing equipment.

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Few British workers fancy showing up for a 6am shift in one of Evesham's refrigerated food-packing factories, whatever the wage on offer.

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