Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers continued to picket outside the $230 million facility in Brookline, representatives of Local 877 of the International Union of Operating Engineers met with University officials and negotiators for the Medical Area Services Corporation (MASCO), which runs the plant on contract for Harvard, for more than 12 hours at the Federal Mediation Office in Boston...
...rest of the week saw the workers, members of Local 877 of the Internation Union of Operating Engineers, continually picket the plant and succeed in blocking all but one oil shipment...
...seven months Reagan tried to serve as a mediator, but eventually he led actors across picket lines to help break the strike. Tension ran so high that for a while Reagan carried a revolver; he thought that Communists were out to wreck his career and might even threaten his life. He is incensed now that some writers are taking a revisionist view of the period. Says Reagan, his mouth a thin line and his face more grim than he ever lets it get in public: "The rewriting of history that is going on about that era is the biggest fairy...
...U.A.W.'s efforts paid off last week in New Jersey. When the state's purchase and property division decided to buy 450 Datsun 210s because they were $700 per car cheaper than comparable American cars, autoworkers immediately strung picket lines around the statehouse in Trenton and demanded that the deal be quashed. On the second day of the protest, both houses of the legislature unanimously passed a hastily drafted bill to prohibit the state from buying any cars not assembled...
...shotgun blast into the sunlit air, and no more. No blood, no violence, and that is a disappointment. Of course there is nothing intrinsically good about violence in the cinema, and those who would tell us that there is come off as silly as those who would picket The Warriors. The point is that the use of violent action demands justification from the rest of the movie, in some way, and that one way of justifying violence is to make a great movie; by killing some people the audience cares about, in an early scene like this, the director...