Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarkable that the United Steelworkers has shut down Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. for the past nine months. The U.S.W. is no stranger to picket lines. What is really remarkable is that this longest Big Steel walkout since World War II has gone unnoticed by both the nation and the marketplace...
...Labor Secretary, Robert Reich couldn't get a buzz going if he'd crossed a picket line. Now he's the talk of the town for his bestselling memoir, Locked in the Cabinet. But the talk has turned decidedly sour since one reviewer, Jonathan Rauch, saw through the forest of short-guy jokes to find a book that was too good to be true. Writing in Slate magazine, Rauch found that Reich had cooked the raw material of Washington life into an unrecognizable stew of half-truths in which he comes off as morally superior...
...this college dropout with the six-figure salary and the BMW, "Is this the American Dream?" She wrinkles her nose. "It reminds me of white picket fences," she says. Instead, she offers, "I believe in positivity." That attitude is everywhere as Mohajer rushes around her cluttered Beverly Hills, Calif., offices in 3-in. platform shoes, testing eyeliner samples; approving display designs; ordering in pizza; playing A Tribe Called Quest on the sound system ("It's so chill"); promising Liz, her trademark attorney, who drops by, that, yes, she would join her kick-boxing class; and celebrity name-dropping (Alicia Silverstone...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) comes to terms with the University, successfully winning renewal of full-time-worker benefits for part-time workers. HUCTW members replace their picket signs at Mass. Hall with Hershey's Kisses for students on their way to exams...
Carnesale also handled complications earlier this year with HUCTW. His stern negotiations sparked a multi-month picket with HUCTW employees greeting Carnesale each morning, sometimes with cutouts of his head on sticks...