Word: picket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teachers, faced with the same inflationary problems as the taxpayers. had money troubles of their own. Although a strike by teachers is against the law m New York State, only five of the 630 staff members initially crossed the picket lines. Throughout the seven week of the strike, the teachers showed remark able unity and zeal: just one other decided to go back to work...
Then there is the handful of teachers who crossed the picket lines. "We call them stabs, because they cut our throats," says one young junior high teacher. One teacher who crossed the picket lines had his windshield broken and his tires slashed. He kept replacing tires, only to have the replacements cut as well-ten in all. "My students consider me a hero," he says, "but the teachers consider me a scab." When one school secretary asked a teacher if he had seen one of his nonstriking colleagues anywhere in the halls, he looked at her blankly. "Who?" he asked...
...walkout by the 235,000-member Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (B.R.A.C.) stemmed from a dispute by just one local against just one line, the Virginia-based Norfolk & Western Railway, which has been struck by the clerks for more than two months. But other B.R.A.C. locals, raising picket signs in sympathy, tied up operations at 74 lines in 42 states, idling up to 350,000 of the nation's half a million rail workers, stranding thousands of commuters and millions of tons of freight. President Carter stepped in after three days of chaos. Acting under the emergency provisions...
White ties, tails-even a few evening gowns. The members of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra do things in style, and marching on the picket line is no exception. The high note of the N.S.O.'s strike, which began four days before the opening night of the season, came when the orchestra's conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, joined the marchers in an unusual show of support. When police came by and asked the strikers to move away from the entrance to the Kennedy Center, Slava, exiled from the U.S.S.R., kept a civil tongue in his cheek...
...Corporation's decision on South African investments, one Harvard student had to shuttle between the rally and another, very different struggle. On that day, the members of Local 880 of the Massachusetts Hospital Service Workers went out on strike against Otis Hospital in Cambridge. Taking turns on the picket line and at the South Africa rally was one Harvard student who had worked with the union throughout the year, Adair Damman...