Labor

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FILE - In this hursday Dec. 26, 2013 file photo, Richard Mattos, 59, looks for jobs at a state-run employment center in Salem, Ore. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last for the last week of 2013 on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper, File)

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A volunteer vote counter tallies ballots Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, at the Boeing Machinists union hall in Seattle. Workers were voting on the Boeing Co.'s latest contract offer to keep the assembly of the Being 777X airplane in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Boeing workers cry after learning that voters in District 751 of the Boeing machinists union voted to accept Boeing's latest contract offer to keep the assembly of the Boeing 777X airplane in Washington state, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Jim Bearden, administrative assistant for District 751 of the Boeing machinists union, tells reporters that workers voted to accept Boeing's latest contract offer to keep the assembly of the Boeing 777X airplane in Washington state, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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In this Dec. 20, 2013 photo, Fire Chief Darrel Fournier speaks to a reporter in Freeport, Maine. Fire chiefs and lawmakers are working to protect the system of volunteer firefighting that has served rural America for more than a century but is threatened by an ambiguity in President Barack Obama’s health care law. The volunteers are considered employees for tax purposes, leaving open the question of whether they fall under the health care law’s requirement that employers with more than 50 workers provide insurance for them. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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In this Dec. 18, 2013, file photo shows a small group of machinists union members are greeted by a supporter as they march away from a Boeing factory building toward the machinists' union hall in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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Machinists union members and supporters hold their right hands over their hearts as they recite the Pledge of Allegiance to begin a rally asking members to vote against a proposed contract Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in Seattle. National leaders at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers recently announced a vote on Boeing's proposal despite the objections of local union leaders who had rejected the offer. The local leaders are recommending that members vote "no," in Friday's vote despite Boeing's threat that work on its new 777X airplane will go elsewhere if workers don't take the deal. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Machinist Joel Hetland holds up a "No" sign at a rally asking members to vote against a proposed contract Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in Seattle. National leaders at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers recently announced a vote on Boeing's proposal despite the objections of local union leaders who had rejected the offer. The local leaders are recommending that members vote "no," in Friday's vote despite Boeing's threat that work on its new 777X airplane will go elsewhere if workers don't take the deal. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)