Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Saturday's rally, most of the supporters returned to the shopping district to man picket lines at Filene's and Jordan Marsh. Although the strike committee has picketed Filene's and Milton's in Chestnut Hill and Quincy, since the summer, Saturday was the first time it has picketed Jordan Marsh...
...Exchange on a UFW picket line...
...their jobs when their employers refused to re-sign contracts with the United Farm Workers. Instead the growers signed "sweetheart" contracts (contracts between a union and an employer without union representation elections) with the Teamsters. Over 6000 people were arrested in California for trying to exercise their right to picket in peace. Two striking workers were killed; one was beaten to death by a sheriff's deputy; the other was shot as he picketed the fields of his employer. Despite anti-strike injunctions and physical intimidation, the strikers continue their struggle for just living and working conditions. They demand minimum...
Cambridge supporters of the UFW have been picketing restaurants, stores and fruit stands for the past nine months. Picketers try to educate customers about the UFW's boycott of non-union lettuce, grapes and Gallo wine. In addition, the picket lines provide pressure for stores like A&P to cooperate with the boycott...
Recently the right of UFW supporters to picket has come under attack. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is expected to rule this week on the union's right to picket in shopping centers. According to "Shopping Center World," a retail trade journal, over 50 per cent of the annual retail consumer sales are made in shopping centers in the three most urban New England states--Mass., Conn., and R.I. In an article in the November 4, 1973, Globe, David Rogers states that one of the key conflicts involved is between "the property rights of center owners and the First Amendment...