Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harbury, who graduated from the Law School in 1978, staged a 32-day hunger strike in Guatemala City to call attention to her husband's disappearance...
Henry Harbury said that Torricelli was promptedto release information about Velasquez's murderafter his daughter staged a 12-day hunger strikein Lafayette Park, in front of the White House.Harbury's second hunger strike ended on March...
Dodgers fans Jimmy Sweeney and Stuart Rawitt have gone online to organize a baseball boycott. Their for-profit organization -- Baseball Fans On Strike -- just established anInternet sitefor ordering a $20 membership kit, T-shirts, and baseball caps with the organization's logo. Members who pledge to boycott all 1995 major league baseball games get a newsletter, a travel gift certificate and a bumper sticker. Sweeney told TIME Daily that the boycott is for the entire season, even if thestrikeends, because he is angry that it has lasted so long. "We're boycotting regardless of who is playing," Sweeney said...
...thestrikein time to get the players back in uniform by opening day, this Sunday. But tonight, players union chief Donald Fehr deflated hopes for a quick settlement, telling a press conference that while the owners had made some promising concessions, they were not yet substantial enough to bring the strike to an end. Late last night, owners proposed playing the 1995 season -- now scheduled to begin with replacement players -- under 1994 work rules, then levying a 50 percent "luxury tax" in 1996 on teams with payrolls over $44 million as a subsidy for financially-pressed teams, then raising that threshold...
Senate Democrats flexed their muscles and forced Republican colleagues to abandon an effort to overturn President Clinton's striker-protection order. The directive bars federal agencies from doing business with companies that hire permanent replacement workers during a strike. Opponents fell two votes short of stopping a Democratic filibuster...