Word: picketeers
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...press conference on Wednesday students released a poll which showed that one third of them would honor union picket lines. "I have frankly been astonished at how little support there has been for the opposite side." Franks said...
Some professors are moving their classes as an acting demonstration of support for the union. Other feel that by doing so they are remaining natural by not making their students to decide whether to cross a picket line, said Teresa J. Odendahl, one of the faculty members helping find space in theaters, churches and community centers for classes...
...these groups are mobilizing against the President, and fighting back. But members of the group which has arguably been the hardest-hit in the past four years cannot mobilize on their own. They have no PACs, no national recognition. They cannot march, or picket, or write books. They cannot even vote...
...meeting, a Dennis selectman presented Studds with a petition signed by 314 residents calling for his immediate resignation because he had "de-based his manhood" and could no longer effectively represent the 10th district. Demonstrators with picket signs reading "Get the Gay Out" and "Dump Studds" also greeted the 46-year-old Congressman...
...timing was poor. Training camps were struck and Theismann arrived to cross the picket line of the staunchest union members in the league. On a grizzled old team that kept its own counsel, here was a brash young quarterback who courted interviewers, probably the first third-stringer ever to put his name on a restaurant. "I was 24; Billy was 34; who knows how old Sonny was? And I was ostracized." During a game against the New York Giants, Theismann impulsively replaced an injured punt returner, and that violent work became his job and his credential. The veterans...