Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that in July, the National Football League Players Association strike was barely a week old. In the end, Langer was right. Strike leaders had predicted that players would stay out indefinitely, that the owners would eventually cave in. Langer was one of the few veterans to cross the picket line then, but in the weeks that followed, dozens of veterans reported to training camp...
...deadline passed without a single picket line reappearing, the strike died. With a straight face, Union Leader Ed Garvey declared: "We feel stronger than ever," but he fooled no one. Even Garvey admitted that the cooling-off period had not succeeded in moving management toward his position or in rallying strike support. Indeed, only several hundred of the N.F.L.'s 1,200 veterans would have left camp had a new walkout been called. The players were simply not hungry enough to sustain a strike...
...training camp, the established league's exhibition season had been a disaster with rookies and free agents playing humdrum football in half-empty stadiums. Even if the strike is settled soon, the rancor between owners and strikers-not to mention bad blood between strikers and veterans who crossed picket lines-promises to linger through the season ahead...
...there were any lingering hopes that the long era of labor peace might continue, they vanished last week. Hoping to catch up with double-digit inflation, a record number of workers were walking picket fines. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service reported that more than 600 work stoppages -the most since the agency began keeping records 15 years ago-involving 230,000 workers were in progress...
James J. Norton, international representative for the GAIU, said last night that he has not heard of any plans by Chavez to visit the printers' picket line in Forbes Plaza...