Word: picketer
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...America's Next Top Model share the same dream - to become stars of the catwalk. But the 12 writer-producers who help create one of TV's most successful reality shows have more modest ambitions, and to achieve them they are strutting their own version of the catwalk - a picket line outside the series' production studios in West Los Angeles. Early this week the entire writer-producer staff of Top Model walked off the job, alleging that the show's executive producers are hindering their efforts to join the Writers Guild of America and collect the pension and pay benefits...
...Lieberman tried to summon his inner Samuel Gompers as he accepted the Connecticut AFL-CIO's endorsement in his dead-heat primary campaign against the aristocratic antiwar upstart Ned Lamont. "Sometimes you work hard, and people forget," he said, thanking a straggly crowd of union leaders for remembering the picket lines he'd walked over the years. "My folks were working people. I grew up thinking that people who work deserve a fair deal. It takes government to ensure...
...year-old woman who grew up in Berkeley who has never once voted for a Republican, or crossed a picket line, or failed to send in a small check when the Doctors Without Borders envelope showed up. I believe that we should not have invaded Iraq, that we should have signed the Kyoto treaty, that the Starr Report was, in part, the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. I believe that poverty is our most pressing issue and that we should be pouring money and energy into its eradication. I believe that allowing migrant women and children...
While some students have displayed their support by joining the picket line, some professors have moved their classes off campus to either local houses of worship or to the Grenada Green, a large field on campus, as a sign of solidarity with the workers. Faculty members have also created a blog providing updates on the strike...
Being a citizen, you have a remedy apart from exile. In the real world, private property rights are trumped by Constitutional rights; if you’re a labor organizer trying to picket, you often have access to private property like stores in a mall because you’re engaged in a Constitutionally-protected form of speech...