Word: picketings
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...Tuesday a convoy of 150 activists from South Central arrived to picket the courthouse where the four policemen were tried. "Why do you bother us?" Simi Valley housewife Suzanne Heffernan shouted back at the protesters. "Let us go on with our lives, like you are down there...
...STRIKING WORKERS IN PEOria, Ill., must have felt last week as if one of the company's mammoth earthmovers had just rolled over them. Despite the United Auto Workers' $800 million war chest (which could have provided up to $60,000 in benefits for every family on the picket line), the five-month-long siege suddenly collapsed. The union leadership failed to gain a single demand on wage and medical-care issues. The employees had to wait to be summoned back to work, while the company considered eliminating more than a thousand jobs. Many U.A.W. members seemed as bitter over...
...last day of a week filled with sit-ins and a student strike, members of the Coalition for Civil Rights walked picket lines and held a vigil to protest the lack of women and minorities on the Law School faculty...
...professors crossing the morning picket lines largely ignored protesters, who employed colorful chants and signs...
...technicians and groundskeepers alike joined graduate students on the picket lines yesterday despite successful renegotiations of their own contracts on Sunday night...