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This Thursday will mark six months on the picket line for 250 striking workers at Cambridge's Cambion Corporation. But, despite countless bargaining sessions and a recent attempt by the Cambridge City Council to intervene, the violence-plagued strike appears no closer to a settlement than when it began...
According to Allen Rosenberg, attorney for Local 262 of United Electrical, Radio and Machinery Workers of America, Arruda said Rockcastle "propelled her across the sidewalk by a blow to her chest with his elbow" in a picket-line incident on the afternoon of September...
...confrontation taken right out of the late '60s: a group of students joined in a workers' picket line, confronted a university administration with demands, and vowed to remain where they were until those demands were...
Sandra Polaski, president of Local 262 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union charged the council with abetting Cambion management in keeping tensions high on the picket lines...
Polaski added that among the people who really need protection are the strikers on the picket lines who have scuffled with police. Two women on the picket lines have been hospitalized following fights at the factory gates, as well as one patrolman who was knocked to the ground and kicked when tempers flared...