Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Tens of thousands of long-distance telephone callers faced delays yesterday as workers rallied and walked picket lines at American Telephone & Telegraph facilities in the nation's largest strike in three years...
Faculty Club employees said yesterday that they have cancelled a picket scheduled for today because Harvard this week backed down from a plan to replace union employees with non-union members during weekend functions...
Fear of a worker demonstration was not a major factor in the refusal to hire non-union workers on the weekends, Powers said. "If there had been a picket line, I don't think it would have embarrassed anyone...
...March 21 in a bid for more severance pay, the barmaids found themselves separated from their main source of income. But the women finally took matters into their own hands. A large band of irate bar girls, many dressed in tight-fitting shorts and braless tops, stormed the picket line at the Clark base. In short order the ladies dispersed the strikers and set the G.I.s free. Their uprising, however, did not stop the strike, which finally ended three days later...
Bozzotto, who has threatened to organize awildcat picket if the Harvard Faculty Clubcontinues to hire outside weekend help, askedstudents for their support. But Bozzotto said hewould not object if Harvard students filled theweekend shifts...