Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...However, years of resistance by both workers and students will be necessary before the University can be turned around. This struggle can begin by a student commitment to aid the printers. Our interests are one; we should show our unity in the face of Harvard by joining the GAIU picket lines...
...every day four or five printers picket outside the Printing Office gates behind Soldiers Field, and four or five Harvard and Boston policemen stand watching them, making sure the printers let in delivery trucks that want to cross the picket lines...
About 150 students turned out yesterday at a rally in front of Holyoke Center supporting the strikers--slightly outdrawing a similar rally held the week before. And a corps of students began this week to picket with the printers...
...have been sent to widely separated fields. In some cases, workers say, U.F.W.A. dispatchers have played favorites. "Once I had to wait four hours last year before I could get dispatched," says Grape Picker Gloria Esquirrel, a former U.F.W.A. member. "The people who had put in time on the picket lines were sent out first." Since farm workers are generally paid by the hour (average wage: $2), such delays can result in serious financial loss...
...every indication points to a long strike. Negotiations have been held only sporadically, and yesterday's session--the first since the strike began--was unproductive. The union confidently hopes that Harvard will not want Commencement to be marred by picketing employees, but even so, it is probable that someone, if not the printers themselves, will be carrying picket signs and not diplomas come mid-June...