Word: picketers
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...strikers, as stubborn and high-spirited a bunch as ever hit the bricks, did not, of course, concede defeat. Despite the overwhelming Government pressure, they continued to picket airports from LGA (La Guardia) to LAX (Los Angeles International), rallying behind their bearded, owlish-looking president Robert E. Poli in an unusual show of solidarity. Poli, 44, a former controller himself, called the Administration's actions "the most blatant form of union-busting I have ever seen." Vowed he: "It will not end the strike...
...week, a crew of painters arrived at Barn No. 48 on the backstretch of New York's Belmont Park. They started to work, patching cracks in the walls of the cramped two-room office next to the stables and applying a fresh coat of paint to the weathered picket fence. "Just regular maintenance," a workman explained. Then he added, "Of course, the big horse always gets regular maintenance just before the big race...
...effect, the Teamsters hoped to help stage an old-fashioned organization effort. There would be no NLRB to back them up. But if the shuttle drivers would strike and picket, enough support might be drawn from the community to force the University to bargain for a shuttle contract...
Swanson, who was arrested earlier for participating in a sit-in at a Boston post office, said she knew she would probably be arrested for the sit-in but had no intention of being taken in by police when she decided to picket Saturday...
Most of the demonstrators were immediately arrested after they broke from the picket line, joined arms, and began chanting "Hug against the draft." Police then moved in immediately and shoved the protestors into a paddy wagon parked several feet away...