Word: picket
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HAVEN—Continuing one of largest university labor stoppages in history, thousands of Yale’s unionized employees took to the streets yesterday for the second day. Buoyed by warmer weather, yesterday’s thousand-plus turnout on the picket lines was at least as large as Monday’s, according to students and union organizers...
...novelty wore off yesterday, students settled into the realities of the week-long strike—closed dining halls and classes relocated to avoid picket lines...
Strikers continued to picket prominent campus locations yesterday, wearing sandwich board signs, chanting and blowing whistles. They said they are demanding higher wages, better benefits and more job security...
...wrote that classes would go on in spite of the strike, and students would be expected to attend class, regardless of picket lines...
While unions had planned to protest outside buildings with classrooms, students said they were not forced to cross actual picket lines, though some said they felt they did cross theoretical picket lines by simply entering Yale buildings for class...