Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local 34 anticipates a loss in strength when arbitrators had down an overdue ruling on whether members of the service and maintenance workers' union. Local 35, can legally honor their co-workers' picket lines...
...firm." The Catholic bishops of England and Wales, however, were sympathetic to the miners in their first statement on the strike. N.U.M. President Arthur Scargill, speaking in the southern Wales town of Aberavon, was cheered wildly by an audience of over 4,000 when he condoned violence on the picket line. "I am not prepared to condemn the actions of my members whose only crime is fighting for the right to work," said Scargill. At the same meeting, the Trades Union Congress's new general secretary, Norman Willis, bravely decried "the brick, the bolt or the petrol bomb...
Thousands of Yale students and hundreds of faculty members will join picket lines and hold pro-settlement rallies in lieu of attending and leading classes as a three-day moratorium on the use of university facilities gets under way today...
...only noteworthy anti-Redgrave picket was Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who distributed leaflets outside a theater where she was participating in a benefit, "Boston Against Blacklisting." Though Dershowitz, a renowned civil libertarian and supporter of Israel, defended Redgrave's right to perform, he also supported the orchestra's right to "exercise its freedom of association by refusing to perform with a P.L.O. collaborator...
...they try to open, its war," Bozzotto said. "The workers will stage sit-ins and use additional avenues of civil disobedience if the management breaks the picket lines with scabs. We will not let people take our jobs," Bozzotto added...