Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 8,700 Caterpillar workers have set down their picket signs now that their union has told them to end their 17-month strike. The United Auto Workers leadership called it quits despite a vote by workers on Sunday rejecting a six-year contract that would limit job security, create lower wage scales for some workers, limit union activity and give the company more power to schedule odd working hours without paying overtime. Caterpillar may be in no hurry to put the strikers back to work: the company has posted record profits with a combination of strikers who crossed...
...count journalists among the proletariat now. Thanks to a highly unsuccessful four-year strike by six unions on Detroit's two daily newspapers, reporters have been reduced to expendable commodities like the teamsters and press operators with whom they continue to picket. Faced with massive cutbacks in their newsrooms, reporters broke with their employers in an attempt to maintain workplace solidarity and to ensure editorial quality in their publications. But in an age when newspapers are in a cost-cutting mode, as they are now, even union strength did not prove to be enough...
Today's militant new job actions often come at workplaces that have rarely seen unions before. In one pitched battle last March, 100 registered nurses--some of them grandmothers who never expected to find themselves on picket lines--won a 16% wage increase over 1 3/4 years after a six-month strike against the Catholic-run Mercy Hospital in Port Jervis, New York. Undaunted by the hiring of replacement workers, the nurses, who were members of the National Health and Human Service Employee union, picketed in weather that sometimes sank to -29 degrees C. "I would like to think...
Passersby who stopped to stare at the white picket fences which mysteriously appeared in the Yard last night were probably unaware that the fences actually spell out a message in DNA code...
...include a computer-generated photo of buildings in Cambridge in which the number of stories in each building corresponds to a letter in the code; ladders with a coded number on each rung; color-coded magnets; and the fences in the yard, with a coded animal stenciled on each picket...