Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second consecutive year, the Boston University Women's Center will picket the annual Boston University-Northeastern University alumni luncheon Friday at the Playboy Club...
Crossing a picket line to open his tour at Manhattan's Lincoln Center (with the permission of the striking members of the New York Philharmonic), he told his audience: "We are in absolute solidarity with the struggle of the American musicians." Thus it is all the more surprising that Theodorakis, a sworn enemy of Greek Dictator George Papadopoulos, plans to return to Greece in late December to test the new move toward liberalization there (TIME...
...member of organized labor, and I have walked my share of picket lines. My involvement in the community is total and is a matter of record. I believe that many blue collar citizens think as I do, and their participation will make a strong and healthy reform coalition in Cambridge...
Many of the whites and the blacks on the picket lines outside the Chrysler plants expressed resentment toward their Arab co-workers, largely because most of them don't speak English, and partly because their terms at the Plants are short. They say that their Arab counterparts usually return to the Arab homeland with American dollars...
...older workers in general are much more willing to take what they get in the contract and leave it at that. This is partly because they have developed an affinity to the plants: Most of the older, UAW-represented workers manning the picket lines have been at the same plant for most of their lives. And the older workers see in their youthful colleagues a certain intransigence with which they associate indifference toward the plant, the people with whom they work and the future of the union...