Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Picket lines remained in place, however, around Brown's libraries, where a strike by nearly 100 of the library workers continues with no end in sight...
Eleven students, in a courageous show of support for the striking workers, were arrested while attempting to prevent a delivery truck from crossing picket lines near a Brown dining hall last Thursday. The unprecedented arrests by local police of students on the Providence campus were directly authorized by the Brown administration...
...consistently refused to yield on wage demands until after the embarrassing arrests. Further, the university attempted to break the union by keeping a non-union dining hall open during the walkout; students sympathetic to the strike but unable to afford weeks of off-campus meals, were forced to cross picket lines. During a similar strike at the University of Pennsylvania last year, the university closed its dining halls and paid students to eat off-campus until the strike was settled...
While the dining service workers strike is now over, a separate walkout by nearly 100 Brown library workers continues, with no end in sight. Students should continue to show their support for the striking workers by joining picket lines each day; student support which helped to end the service workers' strike can also help the library workers...
...entire weight of a discriminatory and oppressive society arrayed against them, from mineowners to the goonish forces of law and order they control. But the unusual aspect of this film is its focus on women's participation in the strike: when the somewhat macho Chicano men are forbidden to picket by court order, the women go out on the line and win the strike...