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Textile union claims rare victory in the South
In Kannapolis North Carolina workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon mills voted to be represented by the Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees potentially making it the largest Southern textile mill union victory. The National Labor Relations Board must validate the tally of two thousand two hundred seventy to two thousand one hundred two with about twenty five hundred workers involved amid Pillowtex ownership and modernization concerns.
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Kannapolis
N.C
Fieldcrest Cannon Mills
Norma Rae
Fieldcrest
Tracy Moody
Fieldcrest Cannon
Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees
National Labor Relations Board
Chuck Hansen
Pillowtex Corp
Elderest
Afl-Cio
John J. Sweeney
North Carolina
University of South Carolina History
Tom Terrill
South
Are Mmeted
Tulex Corp
Martinsville
Pillowtex
Ian Taplin
Wake Forest University
Unio
Sally Fields
Crystal Lee Sutton
Bo Stevens
Roanoke
Royal Velvet
Cannon
Charisma Pillowtex
Ralph Lauren
Disney
Martha Stewart