Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon after midnight, picket lines began forming at GM plants from California to New Jersey. "Grab a sign and get in line," shouted union organizers at workers as they poured out of the GM factory in Pontiac, Mich. The signs read: U.A.W. ON STRIKE FOR JOB SECURITY and ONE DAY HEADLINES, THE NEXT DAY BREADLINES. At a Chevrolet plant in Van Nuys, Calif., most of the 4,045 U.A.W. members walked off the job, and the facility shut down. The company was forced to cancel two Saturday shifts at its Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich...
Other workers, especially younger ones who have only recently returned from layoffs or who had large house payments to meet, were less anxious to walk the picket line. U.A.W. members could get just $85 a week in strike benefits and are ineligible for government unemployment payments. The average weekly salary for union members is now $506.80, and they can often earn much more with overtime. Al Manzie, 33, is a grinder at Chevrolet's gear-and-axle plant in Detroit. He has not had a raise in two years and has been laid off four times in the past...
...apart from any particular administration--is too critical and the interests of those who might wish to hear the address are too important to justify such interference. In light of these interests, it is not too much to ask of disapproving students that they close their cars, wear armbands, picket peacefully, or simply suffer through a disagreeable speech rather than prevent others from hearing...
...traced to a number of factors. First was Scargill's decision to call the strike without a national ballot among union members--earlier ballots had rejected strike calls--prompting many to label the walkout undemocratic. This view has been reinforced by nightly television broadcasts showing violence on the picket lines against miners who continue to work. Then there is the issue of Scargill himself. Rumored to be a member of the Communist Party, Scargill's talk of class warfare has not fallen on overly receptive ears in Thatcher's Britain...
...cost an estimated $2.6 billion in lost production and has contributed to the decline of the British pound (at one point this month, its value in U.S. dollars sank to an alltime low of $1.29, compared with $1.50 a year ago). About 140,000 miners are on the picket lines, but another 40,000 continue to work, a situation that has led to many ugly incidents. Televised scenes of bloody confrontations between police and miners have deeply unsettled a British public unaccustomed to such brutality...