Word: picketers
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Sources at UCLA said that problems with labor unions have plagued the campus in recent months. As provost, Carnesale has helped direct University negotiations with Harvard labor unions such as the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Though HUCTW recently mounted a three-month long picket of Carnesale's Massachusetts Hall office, relations improved when both groups signed a year-long contract extension that contained concessions by both sides...
...their conviction that Detroit Newspapers set out to break them. However, they were hindered from the beginning by an inability to coordinate or, ironically, to communicate clearly their rationale for striking. Many of the papers' best-known columnists, frustrated by union leadership and tempted by sweet contracts, crossed the picket lines in the first six weeks. While issues like pay and job security were easy for the public to understand, the unions also opposed changes that are generally considered management's prerogative. The result of such tactics, says TIME's Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter, was a suspicion among Detroit...
Instead of a giant coming-out party, Harvard's southern campaign became something of a Picket's Charge, and left the Crimson reeling in the wake of two double-digit defeats, including an embarrassing 75-51 setback to Princeton on Saturday in which Harvard never appeared to have a chance...
...pending litigation), Tyson discovered that the family "had left in the middle of preparing breakfast, very suddenly." Soon, however, they were heard from: in calls with Johnson, Tyson and other American Atheists officers on Jon Murray's cell phone, the family, which had been expected to leave soon to picket the Pope in New York City, claimed to be on "business" in San Antonio, Texas. There followed an exchange of some half a dozen phone calls that can only be called surreal. "We were doing business," says Johnson. "They were being very cagey. They were going to tell us when...
...long-cultivated image began turning seedy last summer. First, five contractors for the $500 million clothing empire were cited by California inspectors for illegal home-sewing operations. Then a class-action suit accused Guess and 16 subcontractors of paying their mostly immigrant workers less than minimum wage. Ornery picket lines spread from Guess's shop on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive to its 66 other retail outlets across the country. And in a final one-two punch, the National Labor Relations Board forced the firm to rehire employees it had fired for union sympathizing, while the U.S. Labor Department nudged...