Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long after oil began spilling from the tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska, anger started welling up in Mike Siegel. From his base in Seattle, Siegel launched a national anti-Exxon campaign: distributing bumper stickers, organizing picket lines and traveling to the company's New York City headquarters to dump 2,000 protest letters on the president's desk...
Bozzotto says he chose this tactic because negotiations were taking place during the summer, when it would have been futile to picket the University...
EASTERN Airlines has made a name for itself for its oppressive management and union-busting. In recent weeks, as the machinists' union strikes and pilots and flight attendants honor the picket, the company has run full-page and smaller ads in The Crimson urging students to take cut-rate shuttle flights. In essence, the ads tout strike-breaking...
Many readers of The Crimson, and most of the paper's editorial staff, oppose the company. We oppose buying cheap tickets at the expense of striking workers and crossing the picket lines to fly. In effect, we oppose everything the ad is trying to sell...
Myth number one: crossing the picket line and riding Eastern Airlines is not a political act. The fact is that when you fly Eastern Shuttle to New York, you are making a $29 donation to Frank Lorenzo's fund to bust the machinists. The strike is extremely expensive for Lorenzo, and for Texas Air, of which Lorenzo is chair. Eastern, before the strike, was losing $1 million per day. Now its losses are enormous...