The worker, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to release information, said several dozen people suffered minor injuries.

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Fifty-six percent called the employee at home, while 18 percent asked another worker to call the employee at home and 17 percent drove by the employee's home.

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So I asked the duty social worker what the options were, and all they could suggest was that I got admitted to hospital.

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In the summer of 2001, a few members of the non-unionized workforce asked management for information about the wage per hour earned by the average worker.

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One day I asked this retired steel worker for the secret to his success.

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Speaking on the phone from Nairobi, an aid worker, who asked not to be identified for fear of further harassment, told CNN that his colleagues who remained in Khartoum were being intimidated and threatened by government agents.

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Participants in research led by Ella Miron-Spektor, a lecturer in organizational psychology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, were told they would be playing the role of a customer-service worker, then asked to listen to recordings of angry, abusive remarks by a customer to another customer-service worker.

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They also asked if the respondents would gossip about the colleague to another co-worker or to a friend they happened to encounter.

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He has not asked the Governor of California to attack the collective bargaining process via legislation that takes away these critical worker rights as some governors out there have been quick to do.

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