Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miners struck last Oct. 1 after Massey and several other firms rejected an industry agreement, hundreds of injuries have resulted from rock throwings, dynamitings and assaults. West Virginia state police have spent about $750,000 in extra manpower to try to keep peace. Said a miner in the picket line at Massey's Sprouse Creek processing plant in Lobata, W. Va.: "If something isn't done real soon to end the strike, there is going to be a lot more violence...
Next they hope to work on books for Digital Press, which has offered to publish their work. But what's in store for them in the long term? Elvy takes the lead is admitting he wants to settle down eventually with the "white picket fence and dozens of kids, I want to write a book someday. I'll call it Hick from Harvard,' Hick from tobacco farm tobacco to Harvard, makes good," Langerman reacts with horror. "That's him, I don't have long-term goals. I'm 21. I figure I've got 30 years ahead expect to live...
...technical workers walked out of their jobs at the end of September after wage, benefit and job security negotiations broke down. Food service and maintenance workers of AFL-CIO Local 35 later joined the strike, which soon attracted national attention. Yale University dining halls and libraries closed, students picketed with workers, and faculty members moved classes off campus so as not to break picket lines. The university and the union representing Yale's clerical and technical workers, AFL-CIO Local 34, ended the strike at the end of January with a contract that hiked wages 35 percent over a three...
...some of those in power at my college are proposing to debase that most honored of honorary degrees by awarding it to Ronald Reagan. If that day ever comes, you may be sure that I will be in Harvard Square to join the picket line of protesters that is sure to be there. William Morris...
...Students, in the second and third paragraphs of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (pages 78-79): They are 1. To see that the University honors its obligation to "affirm, assure, and protect the rights of its members to organizations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice;" 2. To deal with any interferences with the administrative processes and activities of the University, and actions by members of the University that violate the civil rights of others, including the rights of "freedom of speech and academic freedom...