She notes Iran currently hosts some 900,000 registered and as many as one million unregistered Afghan workers.

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The power of organized public-sector workers, notes historian Fred Siegel, was a non-issue in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Inside the offices, workers make notes on electronic tablets which recognize their handwriting as well as anything typed.

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Yet a group representing Treasury employees notes these workers already face unpaid furlough days.

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