Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish Memorial confidence was quite effectively generated with a lunchroom boycott. Most workers who favor the union -- no matter how slightly -- will participate in a tactic of such low-level provocation. "You can't get fired for not eating lunch," Raudenbush remarked. He estimated that even if only one-fourth of the workers are actually signed up on union cards, this tactic would get support from a majority. The boycott showed the administration at Jewish Memorial the solidarity of the workers. More important it showed the workers their own strength...
Nicholas Rabkin, one of the boycott's organizers said last night that Sachar was "very tactful in placing the bulk of the blame on the faculty, but he seemed to ignore the fact there is administration responsibility...
Students go back to classes tomorrow morning. At the very least, Rabkin said, the boycott has made the administration aware of the undergraduates' concern...
...another student thought the boycott "played right into Sachar's hands." Expressing what he called a "wide spread belief," the student said Sachar wants to get "much more work out of the faculty than he's getting now without raising salaries...
Kramer described Sachar's address in an interview tonight. After praising the students' conduct of the boycott, the President launched into a brief history of the 19-year old institution...