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...strike keeps rolling while an arbitrator hears arguments Wednesday on the company's motion to have the walkout ruled illegal. That's not likely, and some union officials now believe the strike could last through September...
...might not have a backyard but we can walkout and go somewhere," says Khentov, who thinkscity kids have more of "a life in junior high andearly high school" than suburbanites who must"depend on a car and their parents to leave thehouse...
...Boalt Hall School of Law, where no Latino students and one black student enrolled last year, about 150 students held a walkout to protest the decline in underrepresented minority admits. The students then held a cookout in the afternoon...
Cesar Chavez organizes a major strike against California grape producers to combat poor working conditions and low wages for the field workers. When the walkout appears headed for failure, he calls for a boycott of all California table grapes. Colleges throughout the country join in the boycott...
Nonetheless, the high-profile walkout gave Carey a stage on which to attack not just UPS but the rest of corporate America as well for its reliance on part-time workers. Of the 40,000 new jobs that UPS has filled with union members since 1993, fully 80% have been part-time slots that pay an average hourly wage of $9, vs. $19.95 for full-time positions. (UPS says most part-timers are people such as college students and housewives who don't want a full-time job.) "Part-timers do the same work and should be paid the same...