Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start of the strike, Yale was able to operate the freshman dining hall by assigning white-collar employees to work the kitchen, and gave upperclassmen a daily allowance to purchase food, because all other dining halls were closed. But believing that freshmen should not be forced to cross picket lines by eating in the dining hall, the YCC voted to request that Yale offer freshmen the daily stipend on an optional basis. Administrators denied the request, but after meeting the YCC officers, Hannah Gray, Yale's acting president, agreed to the change...
...students oppose the workers, tuitions will go up, job security will go down, and the crisis will go on," Viles said. "If I were going down, I certainly wouldn't be crossing the picket line," he added...
...think the Harvard-Yale game goes beyond picket lines," Scott J. Schoen '80 said yesterday...
...employees will picket the game to protest the Yale administration's refusal to begin negotiations with the striking workers and to turn the dispute over to a third-party arbitrator...
...union source said last night there are normally no maintenance workers in the stadium, but that the union believed the picket lines were an important gesture