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WORKERS at Clarks boot and shoe warehouse in Street, Somerset, are on strike against the company’s “fire-and-rehire” threat.
The strike is no ordinary industrial dispute — indeed, it would be no exaggeration to claim that the future of this country, and the way its citizens who have to work for a living are treated by those who employ them, is in the balance.
Clarks warehouse workers, who are members of the Community union, face the following threats:
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