Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joining the faculty on the picket lines are a 900-member clerical workers' union and a 20-member librarians' union. The clerical workers and the librarians are demanding that the university recognize their unions and meet with them at the bargaining table. The university insists it will not deal piecemeal with a number of small unions but only with one large union representing all of B.U.'s employees. Although the National Labor Relations Board has certified the clerical workers' union, the administration knows that by appealing the decision through the courts it will delay negotiations with the clerical and librarian...
Anyone on a picket line faces the same struggle, Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers, told those at the afternoon rally. Chavez is in the Boston area promoting a boycott of United Brands, Inc. products...
...Classes were very small," Samuel Y. Edgerton, a professor of art history who crossed picket lines, said yesterday. Edgerton added he opposes the strike because it "only hurts the students." About one-third of his students attended his classes, he said...
...asked for a little more money and the employers responded with bullets," Chavez said after discussing the killing of a striking worker February 10. "The hunting season is on every time we hit the picket line," he added...
...Dennis Sullivan, an assistant to Princeton's president, said the picket and service will most likely not lead to an alteration of the university's policy toward its South Africa related investments...