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...shop steward for striking members of the Graphic Arts International Union said yesterday that about 60 per cent of the delivery trucks coming to Harvard are now honoring the printers' picket lines by refusing to make deliveries on campus...
Moreira said a group of 14 printers and 4 students formed a picket line across the Boylston St. driveway entrance to the Business School early Monday morning, preventing delivery trucks from entering the B-School and blocking traffic on Boylston...
Boston and Harvard police ordered the picketers to allow trucks to enter about a half-hour after the action began. The picketers complied, Moreira said, but continued to picket the entrance. He said only a few trucks entered during the rest of the morning. The printers organized the mass picketing because they "want the University to know we can hit them hard," Moreira said. He said this tactic will be used in the future at different points on campus...
Graphic Arts International Union officials said this week that only about 25 per cent of the delivery trucks coming in to the University Printing Office are honoring the picket lines, as opposed to about 50 per cent at the strike's outset. And the University is also trying to stop 11 workers in the University Mail Communications Center from joining one of the striking Unions of the GAIU...
...However, years of resistance by both workers and students will be necessary before the University can be turned around. This struggle can begin by a student commitment to aid the printers. Our interests are one; we should show our unity in the face of Harvard by joining the GAIU picket lines...