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Published 3/14/2009 by By STEVEN GREENHOUSE at NYT > Politics
The executive board of Unite Here, a union representing 400,000 hotel, restaurant and apparel workers, authorized its president to seek to re-affiliate the union with the A.F.L.-C.I.O. >
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