Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration of Boston University (B.U.) has begun procedures to fire or suspend five tenured B.U. professors because they refused to cross picket lines of striking clerical workers earlier this fall...
...automobile "honkin" outside Jimmy Carter's re-election campaign office. In Nashville, a 500-lb. pig with BIG OIL painted on its side was led to city hall to munch slops from a dish labeled AMERICAN WEALTH. In Washington D.C., elderly citizens bused in to join a picket line outside the American Petroleum Institute...
...people to gather food, supplies and money to keep the occupation going. We need people to join the occupation to replace those who will have to leave. And we need leafletters and canvassers to explain the nature of our action to others, and to join in a mass unobtrusive picket at the plant site gates Monday morning...
Rogers is raising labor power to a new level, up from the streets, the factories and picket lines and into the safe seclusion of corporate meeting rooms. Unlike the boycott or strike, his corporate campaign does not demand titanic funding, deny the public a certain product, or force a laborer to stop work and fall back on union payments. Instead, it hits corporate directors personally, not just in terms of profits and production. Undoubtedly, Stevens directors who resigned their corporate posts felt the same pounding frustration and anger that Stevens workers feel in their attempts to secure fair employment benefits...
Bergenheim said the university is considering firing several professors who refused to cross the picket lines of striking clerical workers earlier this month. The professors either did not hold classes or held them off campus, he said...