Word: picketer
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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...
Yale sophomore Kevin K. Abels, a member of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee—an undergraduate group that supports workers—said that the choice to cross picket lines is “a really personal decision...
...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...
...Students should understand that they are free to cross a picket line to meet their academic responsibilities,” Brodhead wrote...
...While crossing a picket line may be unpleasant, you should keep in mind that the University’s policy on freedom of expression protects the message of picketers,” he added...