Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last month. Reason: they had been denied admittance to the university employees' union because it regarded them as competitors for jobs, and demanded the right to form their own union. During four days of turmoil, officials hired scab workers to take the students' places and broke up picket lines with university security police before finally agreeing to allow the students to vote on the issue. Last week they did so and lost...
Members of the Graphic Arts International Union (GAIU) continue to picket daily. Yesterday about 35 workers and a few students picketed the Freshman Union, stopping deliveries from all but one truck...
...brick Hortonville Community School, Sheriff Calvin Spice and eight of his Outagamie County deputies sat in unmarked patrol cars, watching striking teachers walk the picket line. As cars of newly hired, strikebreaking teachers arrived, the pickets clustered around and taunted them with cries of "Scabby!" and "Traitor!" Said Sheriff Spice: "Nothing has happened yet, but a lot of people are afraid that it might...
Claiming that his arrest signaled a lockout by the News, he threw pickets around the paper's headquarters. The News replied that its composing room was open to any printers willing to work at normal speed. The International Typographers Union sided with the paper; it refused to decree a lockout and ruled that Powers' local was engaged in an "unauthorized strike." As a result, members of other unions crossed the typographers' picket lines, and the News continued to reach the newsstands...
...boycott has been growing in New England since it began a year ago with six local stores. Now UFW supporters picket over 60 A&P stores throughout New England three days a week...