Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that" no strikers will cross the picket line, Holloway said. "The solidarity is with the majority. The majority rules...
...FREEDOM, NO FOOTBALL T shirts first appeared on muscle-bound picket lines in 1974, during the second of three N.F.L. work stoppages, which are coming to be routine events. The quarrel is generally over control, but the players always settle for cash...
Despite repeated city rulings against Harvard,the University engaged in a four-year string ofdisputes that made the Craigie Arms a common sitefor tenant groups' picket lines. Finally, in Mayof 1985, the Cambridge Rent Control Board exemptedthe existing apartments from rent controlregulations, allowing Harvard to rehabilitate thebuilding and charge higher rents for the 50 newapartments...
...this is not like the Vietnam War protests. Now labor leaders, religious leaders, and student are all on the same side of the picket line--to stop the war before it begins...
...picket line outside the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan got an injection of star power last Monday morning. A band of network heavyweights, including Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Diane Sawyer, showed up to support striking members of the Writers Guild, who walked out two weeks ago over issues of job security. The featured speaker, however, was a less well known correspondent named Ike Pappas, whose current celebrity derives from the fact that he has just lost his job. "I feel very poorly for the people who have to get up every morning and pretend to work for CBS News...