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Alexis Tanksley, a worker at the Smithfield pork plant in Tarheel, North Carolina, in the parking lot in Dillon, South Carolina, where workers wait for vans to take them to their jobs. It takes hours to get there. She holds a form signed by a doctor, which she hopes will get her job back.

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