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Local 26, under the skilled guidance of local president Dominic Bozzotto, has been one of those powerful forces--one that refuses to remain quiet. After the union authorized a strike by a 2034 to 112 vote, Bozzotto warned management that if forced to strike, Local 26 would not simply picket the hotels: "We won't be outside on the street" he told The Boston Globe, "we'll be inside, in the hotel lobbies, the dining rooms, the meeting rooms...
...union chapter reportedly had a strike strategy which included lists of employees willing to volunteer for "arrest" duty, hour-by-hour plans for sit-ins at hotels, and demonstrations in the communities where hotel owners lived. It is one thing for hotel owners to ignore a picket line outside his hotel, but if strikers march in front of their home or handcuff themselves to a hotel staircase, disrupting business, they will begin to worry...
MAINSTREAM VALUES: this is an expression used to conjure nostalgic images of the nuclear family and a dog living in a house with a white picket fence down the street from the Cleavers and the Nelsons. These are also the values of the wealthy, protestant, heterosexual white males who are fighting to preserve cultural hegemony in the United States. "Mainstream values" are antithetical to the Equal Rights Amendment, affirmative action, reproductive rights, civil liberties, and civil rights for gays, lesbians and bisexuals. This is CULTURAL OPPRESSION...
...stated policies and established law. The April 14, 1970, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resolutions on Rights and Responsibilities reads, in part: "The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign and voice...
...Brown, the strike would affect the dining halls and libraries. The council requested that students who choose not to eat in the University dining halls be reimbursed and that reserved reading materials be available outside of the libraries so that students do not have to cross picket lines unwillingly...