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Other events planned by the activists duringHarvard's anniversary festivities include a pickettonight at the Charles Hotel, and a picket ofGeorge Shultz during his convocation Fridaymorning
More than 1,000 steelworkers bowed their heads to pray in the McBride Union Hall in Gary last Thursday night before heading to picket the huge Gary Works steel plant. For the first time in 27 years, U.S. Steel, now a division of the newly renamed USX corporation, was shut down. In all, 23,000 members of the United Steelworkers union walked off their jobs at 16 plants in nine states, from Pennsylvania to Utah. The workers insist that the company has locked them out, while management calls the action a strike. By any name, predicts Union Spokesman Gary Hubbard...
WASHINGTON--Tens of thousands of long-distance telephone callers faced delays yesterday as workers rallied and walked picket lines at American Telephone & Telegraph facilities in the nation's largest strike in three years...
Rozanne Weissman, a CWA spokesman, said her union expects IBEW members to honor its picket lines at facilities where both unions represent AT&T employees...
Fear of a worker demonstration was not a major factor in the refusal to hire non-union workers on the weekends, Powers said. "If there had been a picket line, I don't think it would have embarrassed anyone...