Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter is a response to Silber's attempts to fire five tenured professors for alleged violation of contract agreements because they refused to cross a picket line earlier this year...
...ADMINISTRATION claims the professors should be disciplined because they violated their contracts. Five of the professors held classes off-campus or made them up later, rather than cross picket lines of striking clerical workers for a few days at the beginning of this term. The sixth professor is charged with using correspondence to the university for his own purposes...
...students yesterday announced formation of a student group to save the jobs of the five professors, who taught classes off campus for a few days at the beginning of this term rather than cross picket lines of striking clerical workers. The administration then began procedures to fire or suspend the professors...
Throughout the history of the UFW, many tactics have been employed in order to bring its message across not only to U.S. agri-business, but also to the American consumer, the UFW's most consistent ally. Strikes, picket lines, legislative campaigns, and voter registration drives have been among the tactics used, but these have been secondary only to the UFW's most powerful weapon: the consumer boycott...
...didn't want to cross the picket lines and I didn't want my students to have to cross the picket lines," Dibner said, adding that his action was a matter of conscience...