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Ninety per cent of the Ferdinand's staff decided to unionize after the fired Ha'penny workers held an "informational picket line" in front of Ferdinand's on New Year...
...smoke rising from the chimney. Trudging toward it through the ice and snow, I heard a chorus of high-pitched angry voices. As I approached the source of this racket, I discerned a circle of tiny persons, marching determinedly while chanting, "Elfin power, elfin power!" I crossed the picket line and was assailed with snowballs...
...were outraged, calling the raid "an Entebbe-style operation with eight helmeted and masked scabs aboard." In a postraid broadside, the shop stewards' committee warned that other companies might employ similar commando raids against their workers. Said the stewards: "The lesson is that no matter how successful your picket, this method will be used to break strikes, break unions and send us all back to the 1930s...
Tenants may picket outside the relocation office this morning and will continue their efforts to block the relocation attempt before the rent board, Meredith Scammell, a member of the Harvard Tenants Union, said yesterday...
...frustrating mail strike, the second in five years, seemed to hinge on the relatively minor question of paid maternity leave. The Liberal Party government did not grant the Canadian Union of Postal Workers the amount it sought, and the posties eschewed envelopes for picket signs...