Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school, and everyone came. The teachers still had not settled on a new contract, the town of Sauk Centre being one of a handful in Minnesota holding out against higher pay. (During a strike a couple of years ago, "teacher lover" became an epithet thrown at anyone supporting the picket line.) The Main Street merchants were, as always, keeping a censorious eye on anyone seen taking money away from Main Street to the shopping center in St. Cloud...
Before delivering his speech at the State House yesterday. Vorenberg marched in a picket line in front of the John F. Kennedy federal office building. Shattuck and University Deputy General Counsel Martin Michaelson also joined the protest...
...Washington that Reagan was bowing to a wave of anti-apartheid protest that continued to grow last week in the capital and at least 13 other U.S. cities. Two miles from the Old Executive Office Building, where the President spoke, a steady trickle of luminaries continued to join the picket line that sprang up in front of the South African embassy three weeks ago. In all, more than 50 people, including 13 members of Congress, have been arrested in the protest. Among those charged with trespassing or crossing a police line last week were Democratic Representatives Louis Stokes of Ohio...
...whether or not fresh Soviet financial help is forthcoming, the tide in the bitter coal strike is turning against the union. In the past three weeks, more than 13,000 striking miners have quit the picket lines. Compared with the early days of the strike, when only 40,000 of the nation's 189,000 N.U.M. members were working, more than 63,000 are now back at their jobs, according to the government's National Coal Board. Hundreds more are returning every day. "Follow me on the road to sanity," urged John Cunningham, a longtime local officer...
...ruling may find Local 35 in violation of its contract's no-strike clause and subject to heavy fines unless its members return to work. Moreover, the local may break the picket lines voluntarily in an effort to save strike funds for mid-January when its contract ends...