Word: picketeer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting, a Dennis selectman presented Studds with a petition signed by 314 residents calling for his immediate resignation because he had "de-based his manhood" and could no longer effectively represent the 10th district. Demonstrators with picket signs reading "Get the Gay Out" and "Dump Studds" also greeted the 46-year-old Congressman...
...timing was poor. Training camps were struck and Theismann arrived to cross the picket line of the staunchest union members in the league. On a grizzled old team that kept its own counsel, here was a brash young quarterback who courted interviewers, probably the first third-stringer ever to put his name on a restaurant. "I was 24; Billy was 34; who knows how old Sonny was? And I was ostracized." During a game against the New York Giants, Theismann impulsively replaced an injured punt returner, and that violent work became his job and his credential. The veterans...
Other unions in such industries as automobiles, steel, rubber, mining and trucking are also taking a pounding. Their bargaining strength has been blunted, master contracts broken, picket lines crossed. Today union workers are often confronted with a no-win ultimatum: accept a pay cut or lose your jobs. Unemployment in these industries is high because of intense competition and slow growth. Even though the economy is now generally expanding at a robust pace, unions have not regained their former bargaining muscle...
...union threw up picket lines in an attempt to halt bus travel. Yet Greyhound began hiring more than 1,000 new workers who were willing to defy the union, and was serving 500 locations in 27 states. Said Chairman John Teets: "Everyone misunderstood the resolve of this company to operate...
...hour. Continental Air Lines, the ninth largest U.S. carrier, filed for bankruptcy in September, then dismissed its 12,000 workers, only to offer jobs to 4,200 of them at about half their previous pay. Pilots and flight attendants went on strike, but enough of them crossed picket lines for Continental to operate about half its usual flights...