Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picket lines, the mood was militant. In Denver, strikers carried signs that read MA BELL ABUSES HER KIDS. Violence occasionally erupted. In Brooklyn, strikers tossed eggs at people crossing a picket line and scuffled with police. Three officers suffered cuts and abrasions, and three strikers were arrested for disorderly conduct or inciting to riot. In Atlanta, Picketer B.J. Griffin was hit in the mouth with a BB, apparently fired by a sniper, outside a downtown Southern Bell office. After spending the night in a hospital, Griffin was back on the line the next morning...
...hero of the plot; young, eager, hardworking, he makes plans to marry his girlfriend whom he has made pregnant. But his downfall comes when he cannot see the pitfalls of not participating in the impending strike. Instead, he selfishly goes against his father Otavio and walks the picket line of his striking colleagues...
January 1983--Support for the boycott increases. The coalition gains endorsement from the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues, the Women's Law Association, and the Law School Council for the boycott. Approximately 60 students, almost half of them whites, picket the first class of the Chambers-Greenberg class...
Waving anti-Driesell picket signs and chanting "Bench Lefty," representatives from the Student Government Association (SGA), Progressive Student Alliance (PSA), food coop and women's center at the university voiced their displeasure at the reprimanded. The demonstrators vowed to pressure the administration to again open an issue that Slaughter insists is closed...
...signing a student-circulated petition Undergraduates can step up their efforts by contacting Powers and his boss Vice President Daniel Steiner '54 to express their views. And most importantly, if it comes to a strike next fall, students should stay on Local 26's side of the picket lines...