Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned by nonunion spouses. Already 17 is going its independent way by opening negotiations with three coal companies. That may put pressure on the U.M.W.'s national leaders, but one thing is certain: no coal will be mined by District 17's members while a picket line is standing. That just is not done...
...countered Wolff's report with a stream of statements and handouts supporting the university's positions, and over the weeks the dispute has bogged down into a stalemate over the facts and figures of each side's arguments. Meanwhile, the strikers are living on a $30-a-week union picketers' allowance, as white collar workers man the facilities that are still open. The university's power plants and the freshman commons dining hall remain in use, but the residential college dining halls and the custodial service have been shut down since the strike began. The university is giving students...
...some firemen, picket duty took second place to heroic professionalism in the face of sudden danger. When troopers failed to check a blaze spreading through London's St. Andrew's Hospital, six strikers donned breathing equipment and rushed into the burning building. "For God's sake, it was a hospital," said one. "This was no time for striking." At week's end, with no settlement in sight, it looked as if the main thing separating Britain from a major fire disaster was luck...
...upcoming holiday season leave little to be thankful for. For the students, more weeks of the strike mean more discomfort and disruption of their educations. Sen. George McGovern (D.S.D.) and Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall have acted wisely in cancelling speeches at Yale recently, to avoid crossing union picket lines; that students were unable to hear them is the fault of the unyielding Yale administration...
...deplorable that a few students opposing the strike have attempted to provoke violence by marching through picket lines while wearing T-shirts emblazoned "Break the Strike." But their irresponsible actions can only reflect well on those students who support Local 35. More harmful, though, is the attitude of the Yale Corporation, which must in the end decide what the administration will do. In its dismal record of employee relations over the last nine years, Yale has set a poor example for other colleges and universities, many of which will be facing serious financial problems in the near future. The strike...