Word: picketings
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MIAMI--Eastern Airlines warned its pilots they risked their future by honoring picket lines in the two-day-old machinists strike, which has cut flights drastically, stranded weary passengers at airports and threatened to expand into a nationwide transportation snarl...
Eastern pilots, who virtually shut down the money-losing carrier by honoring picket lines of the striking machinists union, are risking not only their careers but "the very existence" of the airline, said Robin Matell, a spokesperson for Eastern...
...members try to cross picket lines, Yule said, "they could get their heads bashed in, they could get their cars turned over, they could get their families threatened...
...well as oafs; the new neighbors must be villains as well as victims. All of them are "neighbors from hell," but the old residents are revealed to have done the right thing, if for the wrong reasons. And so Dante, like the viewer, is left straddling a white picket fence, perched between admiration and an urge to move out of this neighborhood pretty darned quick...
When paperworkers in Jay, Maine stepped up their strike against International Paper (IP) last year, they didn't only picket the corporate headquarters of IP; they also picketed the headquarters of Coca-Cola and Bank of Boston, because both companies had a corporate board member who also sat on the board of IP. Making such corporate incest clear to the public demonstrates the structural problem of American capitalism: that a handful of isolated individuals are controlling the economic destiny of millions...