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Personal Narrative: The Labor Movement

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When I was doing my labor movement last night I came into an issue, I went to flex Ruth to Plastics and Ruth would rather go home if there was no work. The reason being for this is that she said Randy told her this would be the only debt she needed to work in due to it being climate control. She cannot deal with the fumes in the other departments, this was her only condition for accepting work at Amway. She made it VERY clear that she talked to Randy about this issue and Randy stated that it would not be a problem. Ruth decided to end her assignment due to not being able to only work in nutrition and only
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