Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of the power of unions. Last week the court, in two sharply written 6-2 opinions, gave individuals a new leverage against union power by upholding 1) the right of a nonunion member to go to court for punitive damages when he is kept from work by a picket line, and 2) the right of a union member to sue when his own union prevents him from getting...
Sole Jurisdiction. In 1952 Paul S. Russell, a nonunion electrician from Decatur, Ala., filed suit against the United Auto Workers for $50,000 damages. He charged that U.A.W. picket lines prevented him from driving to work at Decatur's Wolverine Tube Division of Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. plant, sued for five weeks' wages and punitive damages. The Alabama Supreme Court, reversing the lower court, ordered a trial. A jury awarded Russell...
...establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers coolly crossed picket lines and kept the trains running on time. After three days, the firemen blew a whistle on the strike. The ailing U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS), which in 1956 withdrew a demand for the right to drop firemen so that the battle could be fought out in Canada, may be expected...
...months to meet cuts in its own maintenance and operation budget. ¶The Army recently decided not to man a $2 million NORAD radar station in Arizona. It also reduced the personnel of its Nike missile batteries. ¶The Navy last week pulled one of NORAD's radar picket ships off NORAD's early-warning patrol without prior notice to NORAD headquarters...
POTENT ANTISTRIKE weapon has come from ICC. It ordered truckers and railroads to give pickup and delivery service to customers that are hit by strikes, picketing or labor fights. Rule knocks out labor contracts that permit Teamsters to honor picket lines...