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The women’s walkout: Lessons from the 1980s Watsonville cannery strike
The Watsonville Film Festival will mark the 40th anniversary of the Watsonville cannery strike with a re-screening of Jon Silver's 1989 documentary on the strike, and Silver's new short film on the ...
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Book review: Dot Bardarson nostalgically revisits her young family’s 1960s cannery summers
The memoir is centered on the years she spent with her husband and young children at the remote Chatham Cannery on Chichagof ...
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4 exposed to chemical leak that forces Oroville cannery evacuation
The cannery in Oroville was originally Hearst Canning in early 1900s. The plant employs 169 workers year round and a seasonal work force of 1,243 during the canning season which runs from July to ...