Word: picketings
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...mother brought me up to believe it is sinful to be lazy. One summer, when I was 10, I found myself having to devise a plan that would spare me from painting the picket fence around our Sheridan, Wyo., home. I found an answer that has stood me in good stead in my later life...
...Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, the administrative equivalent of a free speech bible, maintains the College must "affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate, and picket...and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice." But how can the College ensure a comfortable speech environment and to what extent is the nature of speech determined by its context...
...also gained notoriety on campus this year when employee members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers. (HUCTW) marched in front of Massachusetts Hall, where Carnesale has his office, to protest benefit cuts for part-time workers. The protesters carried large pictures of Carnesale alongside picket signs...
Sources at UCLA said that problems with labor unions have plagued the campus in recent months. As provost, Carnesale has helped direct University negotiations with Harvard labor unions such as the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Though HUCTW recently mounted a three-month long picket of Carnesale's Massachusetts Hall office, relations improved when both groups signed a year-long contract extension that contained concessions by both sides...
...enough to think about politics without recognizing that each of us is more complex than any Emersonian ideal. We are more than merely isolated individuals aiming for a monogamous, white picket fenced-in American dream. The myth of the individual self only leads to an acceptance of politics as boiling down into an economic game, waged by those who consider it worthwhile after weighing its costs and potential benefits...