Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Striking machinists and pilots maintained a 60-person picket line at Logan but did not interfere with people crossing it, said Edward Imondi, business agent for Local 1726 of the International Association of Machinists in Boston...
...decision by Eastern pilots to honor the picket lines prompted the airline to file last week for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. Officials have said it is losing about $4 million...
...decade and beyond. The problems of the urban black underclass -- unemployment, drugs, teenage pregnancy, hopeless schools -- are more urgent than ever. But for the black middle class, there are new preoccupations. Not just job-creation programs, but job promotions. Not just high school diplomas, but college tuition. Not just picket lines, but picket fences. An agenda, in short, for a full partnership in the American Dream...
...walkout by some 9,000 Eastern machinists, baggage handlers and other I.A.M. members was supported by thousands of Eastern pilots and flight attendants who refused to cross the picket lines. Determined to continue operating, Eastern said it had hired 1,100 accredited mechanics and 5,500 unskilled workers to fill in for baggage handlers and other ground-service workers. But without its pilots, Eastern was nearly paralyzed. In contrast to an average daily schedule of some 1,040 flights, on Saturday the airline managed to get only a few dozen jets into...
Eastern's 3,600 pilots pledged to honor the strike even though Lorenzo had appealed to them at midweek via a 20-minute video taped at his Houston home. Said Lorenzo: "If the pilots, the flight attendants and the noncontract employees support the picket line and don't show up for work, Eastern cannot survive." As the tape rolled, Lorenzo took out a new contract he was about to offer his pilots and signed...