Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upheld the right of a union to collect union-imposed fines from members who ignore a majority strike vote and cross the picket line. In dissenting, Justice Black noted that the National Labor Relations Act makes it an unfair labor practice for a union to "restrain or coerce" employees from such acts. Black expressed mystification as to why fines did not constitute such coercion...
...badly that they had to reserve calls three weeks in advance. Calls to Arab countries were also delayed by a week; Arab support across the nation, however, was all but nonexistent. Some 200 Arab demonstrators, including a few Black Muslims and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee members, mounted a picket line in front of the White House. But they were drowned out by some 20,000 demonstrators across the street who assembled to urge U.S. support for Israel and wound up celebrating Egypt's agreement to a ceasefire...
With the exception of some scuffles in the late 1930's, Harvard's labor relations with its employees have been comparatively peaceful. This spring, however, Harvard--for the first time in its history--had to put up with picket lines around the University...
...time guards. Garbage was another matter. One East Side matron, accustomed to having the trash picked up twice daily from her back door, shrilled: "But where do I take it?" Many took it to their front sidewalks, but since sanitation-department drivers-good unionists all-refused to violate the picket lines, ripening hillocks of garbage forced nose-holding pedestrians into the street. Some West Siders demonstrated their disgust by instituting communal "toss-outs," and the heaps of cans, bottles and more malodorous detritus on the streets made much of the city look more like Marrakesh than Manhattan. Atop a garbage...
Teamsters usually respect picket lines, and the BGMA expects all deliveries to the University to end. Furthermore, much of the construction work being done by outside contractors is expected to stop...