Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University made no attempt to clear a path to the building, and protesters joked with police and with a Northeastern University student who tried unsuccessfully for two hours to push through the picket line...
Undergraduates manned Union picket lines at work stoppages last Spring, helped circulate leaflets, and generally observed class boycotts. Some of this support undoubtedly was prompted by sympathy for the problems of graduate students, but it was fueled by the Union's successful linking of its own problems with the concerns of undergraduates. For instance, the Union called attention to the danger that decreasing the number of graduate students could mean larger sections and less teaching for undergraduates. In addition, the Union's unwillingness to support stands taken by other groups that did not benefit graduate students directly...
Bass said the workers have no plans to enter Zuckerman's class in the future, but workers will continue to picket Zuckerman's home, his office, and the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital...
...thermometer in the school window stood at 1° above zero, and bitter winds howled in off Lake Michigan. Bundled up in parkas and woolen face masks, a platoon of teachers stood shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalk and honked bicycle horns at anyone who pushed through their picket lines. "Scab! Scab!" and "Shame!" they shouted. "Don't go in! There aren't any children in there!" The few teachers who did venture in found the building virtually empty-and chilling; custodians honored picket lines by refusing to provide more than 55° of heat. The teachers...
Paradoxically, the cause of labor peace has been helped by the Pay Board's stand against wage-and-benefit increases that exceed its 5.5% guideline. Unionists seem to have concluded that it is senseless to march the picket lines for weeks in order to win fat raises that the Pay Board will disallow. If the Pay Board's authority is gutted, though, many more union chiefs may call strikes for inflationary wage gains, especially if they feel that living costs will jump. Thus effective controls will continue to be needed...