Word: picketer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...temporary employees or managers. All residential dining halls have been closed for the week—only the central Commons dining hall will remain open, staffed with replacement workers. And some courses have been moved off campus so that students would not be faced with the choice of crossing picket lines or going to class...
...early hours of the morning, protestors picketed prominent locations—including Elm Street, in front of the Law School and outside Woolsey Hall—marching in circles and chanting. Favorite rallying cries included “What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now!” and “No Contract! No Work! No Peace!” In addition, cars passing picket points frequently slowed and honked repeatedly to show their support for the labor cause...
Later in the morning, picketers began to march around central campus, eventually gathering together in Beinecke Plaza outside Commons dining hall for a long rally before dispersing back to the picket points they had been manning...
...thought there were going to be some places where I was going to have to cross a picket line,” said first-year Kevin Roe, explaining that over the course of the day, he only noticed...
...noted that some classes will be moved to off-campus buildings, and that there will be certain time windows during which students would be able to enter buildings without crossing picket lines...