Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officer was dispatched to check a report of a "ON STRIKE" poster hanging on the John Harvard statue. The officer removed the sign...
Twenty-four Everett Decorators employees have spent the last week on strike outside Johnston Gate, asking Harvard to intervene in their struggle to gain union recognition and keep working...
Until this week, the painters had been employed by a contractor hired by Harvard to perform rehabilitation and redecoration on Yard buildings. But two weeks ago, the painters went on strike to seek union recognition, and this week, the firm has laid off its workers and closed its doors, citing the health of the owner...
Painters reacted to the five dismissals by going on strike and appealing to the University for help...
...their armed struggle as it prepares to negotiate its own peace deal with Israel, and Arafat hopes that reconciling with them will isolate the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement, whose terrorist suicide attacks are the main threat to the peace process. But Hamas may not be feeling any urgency to strike. "They'll only feel the need to act once Barak and Arafat actually seal an agreement," Hamad says. Until then, they?re happy to watch the Palestinian leader sweat...