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10:02 AM, Mar 6, 2008 • By JAIME SNEIDER

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Without any apparent irony, tour guides at the Lower Eastside Tenement museum are trying to unionize and their bourgeois overlords are resisting such efforts. Labor disputes at not-for-profit groups do not often provide excellent educational opportunities, but this one sure does. I propose the museum hire new costumed performers dressed as Pinkerton guards and invite schools kids from throughout Manhattan to watch a reenactment of the Homestead Strike.

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