NEW YORK -- New Yorkers are used to seeing rats on the street but they are not always small, furry ones. Sometimes they are inflatable and taller than giraffes. American unions use giant balloon rodents as a protest symbol, parking them outside company offices to highlight labor disputes. "It's used to display injustice," said union organizer Justice Favor, beside a towering air-filled rat with scabby belly, buck teeth and demon eyes. His organization, representing laborers, set up the rat outside the Manhattan offices of a developer it accuses of paying construction workers non-union wages one recent morning. "The public stop and want to know what's going on. It's a grea...
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