Word: picketings
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...began, befittingly, with lobster tails and champagne served to picketing Hollywood writers by the secretaries of Warner Brothers studios. In the first weeks of the strike called by the 3,000 members of the Writers Guild of America against movie and television producers and the three major networks, both sides assumed the bemused air of adversaries in a genteel farce. Executives at Disney studios provided storage for picket signs in their conference room. Some writers reported to the picket line outfitted by Gucci and Cardin. One rain-shy striker arrived outside 20th Century-Fox and defiantly lofted his picket sign...
...Stirling Silliphant regularly earn over $100,000 a year, Rintels estimates that a significant majority of writers make less than $ 10,000. Unemployment in the Writers Guild runs as high as 80%. "It's the only union where millionaires and guys who are starving are walking the same picket line," notes Guild President John Furia...
Mace. Specifically, Antioch's experiments in educating the poor have led to serious financial and administrative strains that have aroused student militants. They struck the campus for six weeks last winter in support of cafeteria workers who had been laid off. Last week, scholarship students and their sympathizers picketed to extract a promise from trustees not to cut financial aid. College employees refused to cross picket lines to collect trash. As part of their protest, striking students piled it in front of the administration building. Professors could hold classes only in their own homes because militants refused...
...hand into the fields on their honeymoon." He called a strike that last week began spreading into Arizona and other areas of California, where Teamster organizers have also been at work. Violence has erupted as Chavez's migrants face burly Teamster "protectors" of workers who cross the picket lines. The $750,000 packing shed of one grower who had signed with the Teamsters was burned to the ground, and a Teamster organizer has been charged with assault and battery for running U.F.W. strikers off a road with...
Chesca Bang, chairwoman of yesterday's meeting at Marsh Plaza, asked students to defy chapter 5 of the code and risk suspension by leaving their B.U. identification cards at home while they picket...