Nearly 3,000 Hershey workers go on strike

Saturday, April 27, 2002

HERSHEY, Pa. -- Nearly 3,000 Hershey Foods Corp. chocolate workers went on strike Friday at the nation's largest candy maker, disrupting production of chocolate bars, Kisses and other treats.

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