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Many of Kansas City’s fast food workers, home health care workers and university adjunct professors joined together to fight for higher wages and the right to unionize on April 15, 2015. (Photo by Bridgit Bowden, Flatland)

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April 22, 2015  |  Lindsey Foat, Caitlin Cress  |  1 min read

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