Word: walkout
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...days at various sites throughout the University, more than 200 B&G employees joined the strike in support of the protesting carpenters. The non-carpenter B&G workers, all members of the Maintenance Trades Council of Boston (MTC), had voted on the night of March 20 to join the walkout...
With the strike over and the workers back in their jobs, the University notified them that all the employees who had participated in the walkout would be suspended for two days, without pay. Costello said the union planned to file a grievance protesting the suspensions, and another conflict looked imminent...
Union officials maintain the walkout does not violate the agreement, because the 30-day clause "does not apply to a dispute over job security." However, the suspensions have already gone into effect...
...University last met with Gomez, state mediator Douglas Botts and representatives from the Maintenance Trades Council (MTC) of New England March 10. The MTC represents the 300 B&G workers who staged a four-day walkout to protest the University's reassignment of B&G carpenters as a threat to their job security...
That strike ended March 24, and the University then announced that all workers who took part in the walkout would be suspended for two days for participation in what the University has labeled a "clearly, illegal strike...