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On the front steps of the old Berkeley city hall, employees of MSGi Direct protest their company’s plan of moving to Southern California. MSGi Direct conducts telemarketing on behalf of environmental and progressive causes. Workers fear the move is in response to their efforts to unionize. They hope the City Council will persuade MSGi Direct to “remain in Berkeley or in the East Bay,” said Kerry Drew, one worker. “The City  

Council persuaded Bayer to stay.”