Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside the Baltimore Convention Center, a picket's placard proclaimed: PRESIDENT CARTER, SEX DEVIATES AREN'T GOING TO TEACH MY KIDS. Read another poster: WHY ARE JIMMY AND ROSALYNN SPONSORING THIS ATTACK ON GOD'S PLAN? Scarcely seeming to notice the hubbub, and smiling as usual, the President entered the hall and urged the 671 delegates attending his White House conference to be the "catalyst for a new awareness in government of the importance of families and the needs of families...
Nearly three months ago student representatives and officials from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) threatened to set up informational picket lines at today's Commencement exercises if members of the University refused to boycott the dispute-plagued firm of Cotrell and Leonard, the non-unionized manufacturers of Harvard's traditional caps and gowns...
...strike continued and the Faculty passed a couple of partial measures to free students for anti-war activity. Exams were deferred, cancelled or skipped in most cases, although seniors still had to fill requirements and pass courses if they wished to graduate. Amid the potpourri of distractions the "obstructive picket lines," the non-violent direct actions, the Free University in (until it was hit by fire, at whose courtesy one may speculate) Lawrence Hall, the leaflets, the meetings, the rallies, the hearings of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (as in, went SDS chants, "get some feathers, get some...
March 21, 1978: Approximately 300 Buildings and Grounds (B&G) employees, all members of the Maintenance Trades Council (MTC) union, stay off their jobs to support picket lines of the carpenters' local. The local stages a wildcat strike after the University orders five of its carpenters to report to work as painters and lampers, bringing to a head the controversial issue of job re-classification. The B&G walkout lasts three days, forcing the department to shut down all but emergency services...
...Harvard students, a smaller more vocal group will probably linger outside the gates around the Yard to hand out anti-Cotrell and Leonard literature and to enlist support among Commencement participants. Such a group, made up of officials from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and student sympathizers, picketted Cornell's commencement ceremonies last week. And ILGWU officials have repeatedly warned the Harvard community that if anyone wears Cotrell and Leonard gowns during Commencement, the union will set up "informational picket lines...