Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Munoz's effort is part of the third and largest boycott that the Chavez union has attempted since it first went out on strike against Delano Vineyards in September of 1965. Similar groups of farmworkers have been stationed in large cities throughout the country...
Banned from France for his revolutionary activities last spring, Mandel, editor of the leftist weekly "La Gauche," said the French general strike in May was possible only because of the "mass character" of the preceeding student demonstrations. The workers reacted with what he described as "an element of competition," and with the conviction "we can do it even on a broader scale...
...YORK City's teachers are on strike again. Last spring it was the garbage collectors. The fall before that the teachers, and the winter before that, the transit workers. The pattern is monotonously familiar...
...central issue in the strike, community control of schools in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, began taking shape two years ago. In September 1966, angry ghetto residents made one of the first concerted efforts to take over a local school--I.S. 201 in East Harlem...
That's how the conflict stood his fall when Albert Shanker, head of the UFT, led his union in a city-wide strike to secure the return of the Ocean Hill rejects. The union has portrayed its strike as an attempt to rectify McCoy's violation of due process last spring, but while the due-process issue makes good public relations, it hardly explains the union's decision to strike...