Word: picketings
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...arrested during this strike. Francisco Ortiz told me how he was arrested during that summer and kept in jail in a crowded cell for sixteen days, fed on cold rice and water, and allowed to wear only his underwear. Josefina Ortiz was sprayed with a pesticide while on a picket and she developed a sore that took three years to heal...
Hemmet, by this time, was coming to the bargaining table, but in body only. In particular, we concentrated picket lines in front of Nurseryland, because they had at one time agreed not to carry any more Hemmet products until a contract was signed and has then gone back on the agreement. So we took the case to the customers, and many turned away...
...retaliation, APEX organized a picket outside the plant. For months Mrs. Desai and a handful of other dismissed employees patrolled in saris outside the gates of Grunwick as policemen eyed them warily. Unable to meet with Ward, APEX enlisted the aid of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), an agency set up by the government's 1975 Employment Protection...
...about 70 or 80 ft. above the ground). The B-l also is equipped with the most advanced black-box gear, which sends out electronic signals to counteract enemy warning systems. But critics maintain that when the Soviets develop new defensive weapons, including look-down radar and radar picket planes, like the AWACS, the B-l will become obsolete...
...late '30s there was a strike of stevedores in Everett, Mass. The police broke up the peaceful picket line with tear gas. Those were the lean years for unions in America, and these members of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), protesting against conditions in the maritime industry, were banned from further picketing. But the police had arrived on a windy day and there was a school playground to the side of the dock. That day it wasn't only workers who were taken to hospitals; the children also choked and wept as the stinging cloud hit them...