Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existence. All members of the University have the right to press for action on matters of concern by an appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure, and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice...
Where Mr. Rosenthal expands his discussion to include apathy on "national issues," however, I must take issue with his examples. He does not play fairly by comparing us unfavorably with Yale students who honored employees' picket lines last year: there has been no strike here, so no basis for comparison exists. Protest in favor of fraternities at Amherst and Colby support self-interest, nor "national issues." And the suicidal flavor of the Brown students' symbolic statement is their campaign for cyanide pills makes it is position morally repugnant to me, and Mr. Rosenthal has no right to fault...
...past year Yale students have refused to cross picket lines of striking workers; Brown students have rallied for cyanide pills and ejected CIA recruiters from their campus; Amherst and Colby Colleges have protested to keep their fraternities on campus...
...carrier and the strikers grew hotter. Weakened by the return to work of Pan Am's 1,400 pilots, the T.W.U. headed back to the bargaining table. But even as the talks resumed, Pan Am sent termination notices to more than 1,000 flight attendants who refused to cross picket lines and said it would replace them with new workers...
...asbestos victims protested the high cost outside the courtroom on the trial's first day, although the huge proceeding will not necessarily affect what they are paid. A Rand Corp. study estimates that litigation expenses already consume 63 cents out of every dollar spent in asbestos lawsuits. Said one picket's sign: LAWYERS PLAY WHILE VICTIMS...