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24 Smithfield Workers
Jorge Vela Grana and Lorena Gomes Ramos (with their children Jorge Antonio Vela Gomes and Bryan Vela Gomes),leaders in the effort to organize a union, were fired from their jobs at the Smithfield pork plant in Tarheel, North Carolina.

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