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More Than 1,000 March in Boston for Jobs, Corporate Accountability

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  Massachusetts AFL-CIO President Robert Haynes speaking at Verizon’s New England headquarters in Boston.  
 
 

After the new U.S. jobless figures came out Friday, union activists in Massachusetts took to the streets to demand jobs and corporate responsibility, an action highlighted here in this cross-post from the Massachusetts AFL-CIO.

On the same day it was announced that unemployment had reached a 26-year high, more than 1,000 union members, unemployed workers and community activists gathered on Boston Common and marched through downtown Boston to protest layoffs and continuing unemployment, call out rampant corporate greed and demand an economy that works for all.

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