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...count journalists among the proletariat now. Thanks to a highly unsuccessful four-year strike by six unions on Detroit's two daily newspapers, reporters have been reduced to expendable commodities like the teamsters and press operators with whom they continue to picket. Faced with massive cutbacks in their newsrooms, reporters broke with their employers in an attempt to maintain workplace solidarity and to ensure editorial quality in their publications. But in an age when newspapers are in a cost-cutting mode, as they are now, even union strength did not prove to be enough...
Today's militant new job actions often come at workplaces that have rarely seen unions before. In one pitched battle last March, 100 registered nurses--some of them grandmothers who never expected to find themselves on picket lines--won a 16% wage increase over 1 3/4 years after a six-month strike against the Catholic-run Mercy Hospital in Port Jervis, New York. Undaunted by the hiring of replacement workers, the nurses, who were members of the National Health and Human Service Employee union, picketed in weather that sometimes sank to -29 degrees C. "I would like to think...
Passersby who stopped to stare at the white picket fences which mysteriously appeared in the Yard last night were probably unaware that the fences actually spell out a message in DNA code...
...include a computer-generated photo of buildings in Cambridge in which the number of stories in each building corresponds to a letter in the code; ladders with a coded number on each rung; color-coded magnets; and the fences in the yard, with a coded animal stenciled on each picket...
...Whiting and Baker, La Rebaude reaches a flotilla of protest boats at a spot in the open blue ocean--139.05 degrees W, 22.30 degrees S--about 15 miles off Mururoa. One-masters and two-masters crowd the site; the Manutea, a Greenpeace boat carrying journalists, heaves into view. French picket boats motor slowly at the line of the exclusion zone. A French jet labeled MARINE mock-strafes the boats one by one, diving from about 1,000 ft. to not more than 150 ft., then rising and diving again. Military helicopters buzz about, low enough for the mustaches...