Word: picketer
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Those who do have jobs will not receive their first paycheck for another two weeks. And it will be months, and maybe years, before most workers can recover financially from the strike. And one woman--permanently disabled in a violent confrontation with police on a picket line in May--will never fully recover...
...economic hardship of maintaining a strike for over half a year has proven too difficult to bear for people with families to support. In recent weeks many strikes began returning to work, and the union did not relish picket-line confrontations with workers who have stayed with the strike for months...
...getting cold. The small group of picketers huddles together for warmth, pounding their sign-bearing hands together to restore circulation. Students pass by, some exchanging pleasantries with the strikers and moving on, some dashing blindly across the picket line into the library...
...picket line Tuesday, Beth Coogan, a shop steward and negotiator for the library workers, echoed the prevailing concerns of her fellow workers. "I know for a fact that I have already been replaced," she said. "The big problem here is that people just don't know the facts." The picket line--normally staffed by no more than five people--runs from 8:30 a.m. until midnight, 99 hours a week. For a while, students had been joining in the lines; now, the newest Vise initiative calls for the stepped up use of library facilities in order to force an early...
...Picket lines remained in place, however, around Brown's libraries, where a strike by nearly 100 of the library workers continues with no end in sight...