We are headed to the picket lines, but even on the picket lines, our phones will be on, should the State System decide it doesn't want to abandon its students.
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On the picket lines, teachers largely dismiss the pay issue.
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White vans stand ready to take volunteers to picket lines.
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The GM picket lines have become a popular campaign stop.
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"I walked the picket lines against NAFTA," Mr. Sanders said.
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Jay Inslee — who plan to show solidarity on McDonald's picket lines.
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So many candidates have been joining striking workers on picket lines.
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GM's 49,000 UAW-represented workers could take to the picket lines.
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And they're willing to walk the picket lines to get it.
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That's why there are people walking the picket lines with them.
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They will remain on the picket lines while the vote is completed.
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Sanders's campaign is sending people to join workers on the picket lines.
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On picket lines around the country, workers made the strike their own.
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Americans who support the workers could join them on the picket lines.
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Even then, more than a few days of picket lines made little sense.
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And even if they did cross picket lines, there would still be vacancies.
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Teachers hit the picket lines last week, demanding higher wages and better benefits.
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"Tired doctors make mistakes" has been one of the slogans on the picket lines.
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While many parents have joined teachers on the picket lines, some oppose the strike.
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"You're basically saying...teachers, cross the picket lines to coach these kids," Bressler said.
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More than 30,000 workers joined picket lines protesting the telecom company's handling of contract negotiations.
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Students also walked out of a number of high schools to join the picket lines.
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Workers set up picket lines at dozens of plants and parts warehouses around the country.
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Nearly 250,22009 members have joined picket lines at factories across the South and the Midwest.
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The strike put about 20,000 teachers and 13,000 school service employees on the picket lines.
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The strike has put 20,000 teachers and 13,000 school service employees on the picket lines.
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Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders joined striking supermarket cashiers on the picket lines in Massachusetts.
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I have walked more picket lines in my life than all of my opponents combined.
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With unions in the southern coalfields leading the charge, teachers returned to the picket lines.
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If the strike continues through Friday, those on the picket lines could lose their health benefits.
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Two other unions representing ferry pilots and engineers have vowed to honor the IBU's picket lines.
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This week, the strike took a turn for the ugly, with some employees crossing picket lines.
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In came hard-leftists who had learned their craft on picket lines rather than ski slopes.
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Meanwhile, Bernie is leveraging his massive email lists to directly rally his supporters to picket lines.
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It was not clear how many faculty members chose to cross picket lines and continue teaching.
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Educators are walking picket lines or demonstrating to demand more pay and better funding for schools.
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In a show of support for striking employees, many customers refused to cross the picket lines.
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The Chicago Teachers Union's 25,000 members took to the picket lines starting at 6:30 a.m.
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They'll continue to walk the picket lines until the vote is completed a week from today.
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Despite losing hundreds of dollars during the strike, Rutledge said she's staying on the picket lines.
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General Motors – GM workers will remain on the picket lines until a ratification vote is complete.
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So some families have decided to let their children skip school to join the picket lines.
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So, Blickenstaff and her classmates have been joining teachers on the picket lines since February 22.
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In a show of support for striking employees, many customers have refused to cross the picket lines.
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Workers hit picket lines for eight days last year, calling for improved working conditions, including rest breaks.
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A key exchange Gideon had been joining teachers -- including his mother -- on the picket lines since Thursday.
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However, they will still pick up and transport vehicles from locations where there aren't any picket lines.
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Roughly 48,000 union workers with the automaker are walking picket lines outside 55 of GM's domestic plants.
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The district has hired hundreds of substitutes to replace teachers and others who leave for picket lines.
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About 30,000 teachers were expected at the state capitol in Oklahoma City, where they formed long picket lines.
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On the picket lines, some teachers said the progress reported after yesterday's session gave them reason for optimism.
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Oakland teachers hit the picket lines Thursday, unable to afford the soaring cost of living near Silicon Valley.
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On the picket lines, local businesses and other supporters bring food, drinks and water to the striking workers.
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Marianne O'Brien said the need for additional support staff was one of the main reasons she walked picket lines.
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General Motors strike Almost 50,000 GM workers will stay out on the picket lines for at least another week.
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Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton joined picket lines and pronounced their support for the striking workers on Wednesday.
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Democratic presidential candidates have promised to help American workers and have walked the picket lines with striking UAW workers.
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For the first time in 25 years, teachers in the Mile High City could take to the picket lines.
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More than 30,000 teachers from 900 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District are marching on picket lines.
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Not surprisingly, then, on the picket lines and at the occupied universities, women did not have an equal voice.
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The strike saw about 3,200 conductors and yard workers hit picket lines demanding improved working conditions and rest breaks.
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Teachers in red T-shirts and sweatshirts were on picket lines outside many of the city's 500 public schools.
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I would bet there's probably 50 percent Republicans in this hall right now and out on those picket lines.
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Some 3,200 unionized employees, including conductors and yard workers, are hitting picket lines amid softening demand for freight services.
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In 2003, more than 70,21960 workers at 220 stores in the state walked picket lines for nearly five months.
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The teachers had been joined on the picket lines by education staff such as bus drivers and school cooks.
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However, the massive GM strike, in which about 50,000 people joined picket lines, was not counted in this month's report.
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Many parents have elected to keep their kids at home or have joined their teachers out on the picket lines.
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The union president said he would love to see parents join teachers on the picket lines, if the strike happens.
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The candidates are angling for attention on picket lines in an effort to show solidarity with the ascendant labor movement.
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He was known to turn up on miners' picket lines, sometimes bringing young players along as a lesson to them.
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Schools remained open, staffed by substitutes, but many parents said they would not send their children across the picket lines.
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Some 3,200 unionized employees, including conductors and yard workers, hit picket lines on Tuesday amid softening demand for freight service.
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Warren, Biden and Sanders have all actively sought labor support and appeared on picket lines with striking United Automobile Workers members.
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The automaker reached a tentative 4-year deal last week with workers who took to the picket lines for a month.
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But attendance was down considerably as parents kept children home out of concern for their safety or to honor picket lines.
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Around 3000 members of the Oakland Education Association went on strike with picket lines at all 86 of the district's schools.
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At the same time, in solidarity with workers, shoppers did not cross picket lines, at a great cost to the company.
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In early July of 1959, picket lines blocked liquor stores on Harlem's Lenox Avenue, Seventh and Eighth Avenues, and 220th Street.
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Democratic candidates often show up at picket lines; several did so just last month when Stop & Shop workers went on strike.
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But it was unclear how the planned protests and picket lines of the striking teachers would affect traffic and police resources.
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The local leaders will also decide whether workers will remain on picket lines or return to work during the voting process.
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But even though this strike focuses on teachers' salaries, students joined them on the picket lines, saying their teachers deserve better.
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On top of all that, workers formed picket lines because GM is trying to effectively cut their hard-fought healthcare benefits.
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About 48,000 workers from 55 facilities in nearly a dozen states began manning picket lines instead of assembly lines on Monday.
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And even though this strike focuses on teachers' salaries, students joined them on the picket lines, saying their teachers deserve better.
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At the time, some teachers crossed the picket lines, but there is little sign that any will do so this time.
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Uber chose to continue serving the airport — albeit with surge pricing disabled — a move that critics saw as crossing picket lines.
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At the same time, labor unions organized picket lines and petition drives outside major league ballparks, collecting more than a million signatures.
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And one of the policy's biggest proponents, 22020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, emailed his supporters to rally people to the picket lines.
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And one of the policy's biggest proponents, 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, emailed his supporters to rally people to the picket lines.
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Ferry boat pilots and engineers, represented by separate unions, were not part of the job action but refused to cross picket lines.
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And reopening Lordstown has becoming a rallying cry for the union rank and file, fueling militancy that has ended in picket lines.
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Over the next two years, students joined the picket lines of strikers from General Electric, General Motors and the U.S. Postal Service.
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The state's teachers and school service employees have been on the picket lines since late last week, demanding better pay and benefits.
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James Lawson, the 90-year-old civil rights icon, to a "Tacos for Teachers" campaign to fund food on the picket lines.
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You've talked about making the picket lines even stronger to make the attention to Los Angeles public schools really make a difference.
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Those on the picket lines had been getting only $250 a week in strike benefits, starting with the second week of the walkout.
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One group of protesters planned to form picket lines outside of the event and interrupt BlizzCon panel discussions with questions about Hong Kong.
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Student support for graduate student workers was so encoded in the university's meme culture that many undergrad students also joined the picket lines.
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Picket lines formed at all of the universities' campuses and at the system's headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa., after the strike began on Wednesday.
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Smaller walkouts began in early February, organized by the sons and daughters of coal miners who had stood on the picket lines themselves.
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The strike had overwhelming local support, with many customers refusing to cross picket lines and bringing meals to workers protesting outside the stores.
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Teachers are set to hit the picket lines Thursday morning, as district officials plan to rely on other employees to keep schools open.
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Union members walked out of factories and set up picket lines at 33 plants across the nation as well as 22 parts warehouses.
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"We're going to continue to strengthen our picket lines, which have been growing with the support from our community and parents," he added.
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The candidate himself has spoken occasionally on the stump about his roots in the progressive movement and support for union workers on picket lines.
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The complaints differ by school district, but one common refrain on picket lines is that teachers are not paid enough for their hard work.
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It's not uncommon for members of the 20203 Democratic field to show up to picket lines or tweet out their support to striking workers.
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It's not uncommon for members of the 2020 Democratic field to show up to picket lines or tweet out their support to striking workers.
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The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 prevented the federal courts from issuing injunctions against union picket lines (which were frequently enforced at bayonet point).
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Two other unions represent ship masters, mates, pilots and marine engineers; those unions are not on strike but are honoring the IBU's picket lines.
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Locally, teachers are walking picket lines in front of individual schools, according to Christine Campbell, president of the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia.
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Holding plastic-covered signs on rain-drenched picket lines across the city, they demanded higher pay, smaller classes and more support staff in schools.
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And members of other entertainment unions historically tend to support union strikes and may also be reticent to cross picket lines, further complicating the strike.
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Six months later, the two entities were still at an impasse, prompting nurses' return to the picket lines in June, where they have since stayed.
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And since they can't cross the picket lines, students are either unable to practice or barred from trying to qualify for regional or state championships.
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But after nearly six weeks on the picket lines, workers were apparently willing to accept the closings for a chance to get back to work.
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In April, candidates like Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg also showed up to Stop & Shop picket lines to support striking grocery store workers.
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Ushers will stage walkouts during screenings held at Picturehouse cinemas, and picket lines will call on festival-goers to boycott venues owned by the company.
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Candidates are jockeying for position on picket lines, lavishing attention on the labor movement over social media and holding town hall events with local members.
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Those include "the hot topics that pastoral teams touch every day that can be controversial that can lead to picket lines, to protests," he said.
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School will be back in session today for more than 25,2200 students and 23,22 teachers after 213 days of walkouts, picket lines and tense negotiations.
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Three Democrats running for president marched with striking McDonald's workers on Thursday — their latest effort to win over working-class voters on the picket lines.
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Yet Mr. O'Brien did spend considerable time with Hoffa and his family and helped organize picket lines and other union activities while still a boy.
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Fleeing marriage, coups and arrest warrants, my mother joined street protests and picket lines, and wrote passionately about the oppression of the poor and powerless.
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Nearly 237,216 General Motors workers walked off the job and formed picket lines Monday in the industry's biggest major labor action in over a decade.
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The Oakland strike continues Oakland teachers hit the picket lines Thursday, saying they are unable to afford the soaring cost of living near Silicon Valley.
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Sanders and Warren have led the pack in supporting unions and showing up on picket lines, pushing other candidates further to the left on labor issues.
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See what the teachers' union wants Former teacher Elizabeth Warren joins the picket lines Teachers got a boost of support Tuesday from Democratic presidential candidate Sen.
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Watching candidates join picket lines shows just how powerful the labor movement has become in recent years, with a record number of workers going on strike.
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Teachers are losing hundreds of dollars a day Since teachers don't get paid while on strike, they're making tremendous sacrifices to stay on the picket lines.
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Now the United Automobile Workers have gone on strike at General Motors, sending nearly 223,22007 members at factories across the Midwest and South to picket lines.
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My father dressed in a zoot suit and later became an advocate for immigration rights and participated in a lot of the picket lines for unions.
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"We just want a fair deal," said UAW Local 22 President Wiley Turnage as he manned the picket lines midday Wednesday with his members on Wednesday.
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GM employees have one less thing to worry about on the picket lines — their health care, which will continue thanks to the UAW's strike benefit fund.
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Elizabeth Warren is set to join Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union, and educators on the picket lines on Tuesday, the union said.
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Thousands would have crossed picket lines already were it not for colleagues who maintain solidarity, by, for example, forcing strikebreakers to strip naked or smashing their phones.
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The strike has disrupted classes for nearly 500,000 students, though parents have turned out in large numbers to join teachers on picket lines and at their rallies.
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And the Vermont senator and presidential candidate has walked on picket lines with striking workers and visited a demonstration in Brooklyn on Wednesday to show his support.
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After almost two months of picket lines, nearly 8,000 workers at the hotel giant have agreed to a settlement that includes increased wages and improved working conditions.
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Around 20,000 teachers and 13,000 school service employees first hit the picket lines Thursday in all of the state's 55 counties to demand better pay and benefits.
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On Monday, we went to schools across the district to talk with teachers on the picket lines, as well as the students and parents who joined them.
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That assessment was evident on the picket lines all over Los Angeles during the strike, with signs railing against "privatizers" and the "greedy side" of the philanthropists.
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Production at ArcelorMittal's plant in Ghent was halted with picket lines allowing in only a minimal number of workers in order to guarantee the safety of the equipment.
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"I was really thinking of crossing (picket lines)," said Ceballos, adding that she has diabetes and could not afford higher healthcare costs if she lost her current insurance.
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About 3,000 unionized workers, including conductors and yardmen, hit picket lines on Tuesday after talks with management failed to resolve contract issues amid softening demand for freight service.
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Bernie Sanders, who has frequently done his presidential campaigning on picket lines, unveiled a comprehensive set of proposals on Wednesday designed to revive and newly empower organized labor.
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For them, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's involvement with Trump's advisory board and what they saw as his company's attempt to cross picket lines was just the last straw.
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But media, including the Chicago Sun Times, said late on Sunday that 7,500 members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) would not cross the CTU picket lines.
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"Even outside of campaigns, he's been on picket lines and petitioned for American workers, so I think for a union standpoint, it was the right call," he added.
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The United Automobile Workers union went on strike at General Motors, sending nearly 50,000 members at factories across the Midwest and South to picket lines on Monday morning.
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The United Automobile Workers union went on strike at General Motors, sending nearly 50,000 members at factories across the Midwest and South to picket lines on Monday morning.
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If a deal is not reached, workers will strike a minute after midnight, Hammond said, adding that local strike negotiators have made preparations to set up picket lines.
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On Wednesday, Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont who is an independent, and Beto O'Rourke, a former U.S. Representative from Texas, are scheduled to visit the picket lines.
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Finally, there's Lynn Nottage's Sweat — which explores the most recent historical battles between factory workers in and off the picket lines in the coal factories of the American midwest.
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In that time she supported black and white workers on picket lines, protested an immigration law that restricted the rights of commonwealth citizens, and demonstrated against the "sus" laws.
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Once-effective strikes and picket lines don't really work anymore—not just because workers are in white-collar jobs, but because they switch jobs so frequently and work remotely.
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With the strike looming, campus administration sent several emails to the student body encouraging students to cross picket lines, report striking professors and teaching assistants, and call campus police.
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The independent senator from Vermont, for example, has shown his support for rank-and-file worker movements by directly rallying bodies to picket lines through his mass email lists.
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About 3,000 unionized workers, including conductors and yard workers, hit picket lines on Tuesday after talks with management failed to resolve contract issues amid softening demand for freight service.
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Instead he spent the weekend facilitating an agreement for unionized cafeteria workers at Loyola Marymount University, in order to avoid picket lines outside Thursday's debate, which took place there.
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On Monday, the United Automobile Workers went on strike at General Motors, sending nearly 50,000 members at factories across the Midwest and South to picket lines, continuing the trend.
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Some 3,200 unionized employees with the Teamsters, including conductors and yard workers, hit picket lines to demand better working conditions and changes they say would make their jobs safer.
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California Today Los Angeles public school teachers are on the third day of their strike, with thousands of teachers showing up at school picket lines and massive rallies downtown.
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The time has come for a genuine, old-fashioned strike, one with picket lines, chants, quickened pulses and the power to reignite the traditional fighting spirit of American labor.
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We went from sporting Afros at picket lines in the '60s to watching YouTube naturalistas — ones with bigger followings than some celebrities — sharing their journeys in front of a webcam.
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The government expects some 4,000 non-emergency operations to be cancelled during the stoppage, the first industrial action by doctors since 1975, as picket lines went up outside some hospitals.
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The campus quadrangle is largely quiet, other than the chants coming from the picket lines in front of building entrances and the roving marching band of protesters crisscrossing the campus.
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Some 3,200 unionized employees with the Teamsters, including conductors and yard workers, were hitting picket lines to demand better working conditions and changes they say would make the job safer.
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Mr. Bey, then 16, went on his own to the museum, hoping to see the picket lines and find out more, but when he arrived there were none that day.
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The Democratic presidential candidates have joined picket lines in previous strikes, including the McDonald's strike in May and the Stop & Shop strike in April, as they jockey for union endorsements.
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Almost 21995,2640 members of the United Automobile Workers union will head to the picket lines this morning across the Midwest and South in the union's first such strike since 2700.
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Costs also are growing for the union, which on Saturday announced its International Executive Board voted to raise weekly "strike pay" for workers walking picket lines by $25 to $275.
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"If GM (GM)refuses to give even an inch to help hard-working UAW members and their families then we'll see them on the picket lines tonight," said the statement.
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West Virginia public school teachers went on strike Tuesday — nearly one year after their original nine-day action inspired educators across the U.S. to launch picket lines, the Associated Press reports.
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A week after a blockade of oil refineries led to panic at the petrol pumps, the country was crippled by another round of strikes, as transport workers joined the picket lines.
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Doug Boughner, vice president of Unifor Local 444, confirmed on Monday that picket lines were down and Integram workers who supply GM had returned to work ahead of the ratification vote.
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Why so many teachers toughed it out For the past six school days, educators hit the picket lines to demand smaller class sizes, higher salaries and more school nurses and counselors.
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"If you have just enough folks who will cross the picket lines, you can still get certification and testing work done," Mr. Aboulafia said, alluding to the possibility of a strike.
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Art Wheaton, a labor professor at the Worker Institute at Cornell University, believes the reinstatement of the health-care benefits should help ease tensions at the bargaining table and picket lines.
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Picket lines are due to go up at hospitals again on January 26th and in February (when a total walkout is planned leaving consultants, nurses and temporary staff alone to treat emergencies).
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As I write this, graduate students at Columbia University—one of the world's most prestigious institutions of higher learning—are on the picket lines, walking side by side with building trades workers.
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He has intensified his attacks on Mr. Biden over trade, a major issue in the state; in remarks in Dearborn on Saturday, he recalled joining picket lines to protest "disastrous" trade deals.
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From teacher picket lines to the halls of state capitols, public school educators and their political allies are pushing back against decades of laws they say have been punitive to traditional schools.
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Bridges coordinated during the strike with C.L. Dellums, the leading black unionist in the Bay Area, and made sure the handful of black dockworkers would not cross picket lines as replacement workers.
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Every major Democratic presidential candidate has expressed support for the striking workers, and several have visited picket lines to appeal to union members who may have switched their support to Mr. Trump.
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There are daily picket lines in front of a site at Hudson Yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan, where construction of a $215 billion office tower is just getting underway.
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Hailing from a union family, he had his own baptism in the labor movement on the picket lines of a 28-day strike in 1965 by welfare workers seeking collective bargaining rights.
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After almost six weeks on picket lines, some of G.M.'s 49,000 union workers could be back on the job Saturday morning, though it may take days to get back to full production.
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They fought and died in every war since the Revolution and from the pews and the picket lines, they've lifted up the conscience of our country in the long march for civil rights.
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As the political world has descended on the Silver State, the presidential hopefuls have been marching on picket lines, releasing plans to bolster union membership and holding town hall events with local members.
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Last year saw teachers strikes in Arizona, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, and picket lines form outside Marriott locations in four states: All told, about 106 million workers went on strike last year alone.
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That's why in union halls and on picket lines across the country, working Americans are standing up and demanding justice and fairness for themselves, their families and the future of all working people.
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The Sanders campaign countered with a statement noting he had joined unions on picket lines and saying his plan 'is as comprehensive or more so than the health care benefits union workers currently receive.
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It was not immediately clear whether the workers would end their strike at that point or stay on the picket lines while the voting occurs; a process that could last up to two weeks.
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It was not immediately clear whether the workers would end their strike at that point or stay on the picket lines while the voting occurs - a process that could last up to two weeks.
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About 3,000 workers, including conductors and yardmen from CN Rail, the country's largest railroad operator, hit picket lines, after both parties failed to resolve contract issues at a time of softening demand for freight service.
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The broadcast networks would also have to deal with the awkward affair at their annual upfront presentations in mid-May, with star-studded events aimed at attracting advertisers potentially marred by picket lines and protests.
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"I'm here today not as a candidate for president but as somebody who has spent the last 40 years of his life walking the picket lines for unionized workers," Sanders said, according to the Times.
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New York (CNN Business)Negotiators for the United Auto Workers union and General Motors returned to the table Thursday morning, as rank and file workers from the automaker's manned picket lines for a fourth day.
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Detroit (CNN Business)Striking General Motors workers will remain on the picket lines for at least another week, even as the United Auto Workers national council voted to recommend a tentative agreement with GM for ratification.
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But after cross country runners and their parents packed a courtroom seeking the right to race at a Saturday regional championship, a judge barred their lawsuit, saying it would force teacher coaches to cross picket lines.
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While nearly all the Democratic candidates have proved more than willing to appear at picket lines during their campaigns, it remains to be seen if they will follow through on their promises to fight for workers.
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All of the picket lines have formed out of a dispute over public dollars — whether education funding is adequate, and what percentage of the money should go toward educator pay and classroom resources versus other costs.
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" The UAW in a statement said GM was "playing games at the expense of workers" and accused the automaker of half-truths and "purposefully stalling the process to starve UAW-GM workers off the picket lines.
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"While every family will make their own decision on whether to send their child to school in the event of a strike, having many parents and allies on picket lines will be powerful and transformative," he said.
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In 1962, the heavyweight contender traveled to Detroit to listen to the Nation's "Supreme Minister," Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X. For African-Americans, the Nation represented a militant alternative to picket lines, fire hoses and attack dogs.
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And members of other entertainment unions, such as the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild of America, historically tend to support union strikes and may also be reticent to cross picket lines, further complicating the strike.
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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont participated in a virtual forum with workers in Dallas, where the meeting was being held, and used his campaign email list to urge supporters to join workers at the picket lines. Gov.
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Born in the Scottish village of Luncarty, Guthrie was a vocal union man and, had he not been a professional footballer, might well have stood on picket lines and spoken in meeting halls on behalf of another industry.
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"While every family will make their own decision on whether to send their child to school in the event of a strike, having many parents and allies on picket lines will be powerful and transformative," the union said.
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UAW members at GM did not want to cross picket lines and return to work if the Aramark labor dispute had not been resolved, but the union reached a deal on Thursday afternoon with Aramark, the sources said.
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Since midnight, UAW members with GM have been working without a contract and those working Sunday had to cross picket lines of their fellow union brethren, as UAW janitorial workers at the facilities went on strike at midnight.
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Truckers will not cross picket lines, so if there are picketers in front of a factory that has finished vehicles ready to be shipped to dealers, Teamster truckers will honor the picket line and refuse transport those vehicles.
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If Los Angeles teachers can build on those gains, the victory will embolden others to push for more, just as teachers on the rainy picket lines this week draw inspiration from the successful #RedforEd movements around the country.
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As some 30,000 teachers spent a third day on picket lines at schools across the nation's second-largest school district on Wednesday, a union leader expressed optimism that stalled negotiations could be restarted with help from Mayor Eric Garcetti.
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Most of the 2020 candidates — including Biden — have scrambled to show their support for big labor by showing up on the picket lines of Stop & Shop worker strikes and hurling their support behind striking teachers in the United States.
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According to the UFCW, virtually no Stop & Shop workers returned to work, while members of the Teamsters and Retail Wholesale Department Store Union (who deliver for Coke, Pepsi and other brands) refused to cross picket lines and make deliveries.
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And so for months, candidates have not just rushed to court union leaders; they have also been holding round-table discussions with members, joining picket lines and tweeting in solidarity as they clamber to prove their affinity with workers.
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"I've never seen an election where the candidates are walking picket lines, consistently talking about federal labor law, and being seen with union members as much as they can," said Peter Dreier, a professor of politics at Occidental College.
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"Mark Carney should come to the picket lines outside this iconic British bank today and explain why hardworking men and women deserve to face years of pay cuts," Peter Kavanagh, a Unite official, said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Workers on the picket lines receive $22014 a week in "strike pay" from the union, however workers aren't eligible for the payments until the eighth day of the strike and they don't receive the money until the 222th day.
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His campaign sent out emails to supporters urging support for striking McDonald's workers last winter, and he claims to have walked more picket lines in his life than any of his opponents — an assertion that's not hard to believe.
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His team has used campaign mailing lists to send supporters to picket lines in solidarity with union shops, he's joined workers marching for a higher minimum wage, and his campaign staff became the first presidential campaign to unionize in US history.
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The decision for the UAW's 225,000 members with GM to continue manning picket lines instead of returning to work was made by roughly 200 local union leaders from across the country during a more than six-hour meeting Thursday in Detroit.
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If the proposal with GM is rejected, the union's roughly 48,000 workers would be expected to remain on picket lines, adding to the automaker's roughly $2 billion in losses over the work stoppage and increasing the financial burden on workers.
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Briceno said the union is scheduled to resume negotiations on Tuesday, adding that while she is optimistic about a deal, she emphasized that workers are prepared to take to the picket lines outside of the debate at Loyola Marymount University.
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Corbyn left his home in North London each morning at dawn and spent the day on the picket lines outside coal mines that were patrolled by police and arrived every evening to find fellow M.P.s talking tactics in the tea room.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Oct 4 (Reuters) - While striking workers at General Motors Co's U.S. auto plants continue walking picket lines for a third week to demand better pay and benefits, the financial pressure has mounted for union members like Frank Lee.
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Uber is being more explicit about its stance on U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order barring refugees from seven countries after people accused the company of trying to break picket lines during a taxi protest of the order on Saturday.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton joined striking Verizon workers' picket lines on Wednesday after Sanders was endorsed by New York City transit workers in his fight for union support that has largely gone to Clinton.
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After five days of picketing and rallies across the city, the union's rank and file were pausing from strike activities over the three-day holiday weekend but have vowed to return to the picket lines on Tuesday if no deal is reached.
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The Davis brothers had to cross picket lines to get their artists in — BAC had subsequently staged a protest of the museum's exhibiting a nationally recognized name like White's alongside two emerging artists, inside a small prints and drawings department gallery, no less.
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In a daring move, Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the writer of the screenplay — until that time, blacklisted artists were forced to use pseudonyms — and on February 3, 1960, President John F. Kennedy crossed picket lines in order to see the film.
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"You see unions across the board coming out to picket lines with food, coming out with their members — there's going to be a mass rally today — and we're expecting a lot of workers, not just in the schools to show up," he said.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago teachers went on strike on Thursday and set up picket lines outside many of the city's 500 public schools, as union leaders and officials of the third-largest U.S. school district pushed ahead with negotiations over a new contract.
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CHICAGO — Tens of thousands of public school teachers joined picket lines on Thursday as a strike in the nation's third-largest school district canceled classes across Chicago and left its new mayor, Lori Lightfoot, grappling with her most significant crisis to date.
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Though Mr. Melvoin believes the union's leadership has been "particularly recalcitrant," he said he was encouraged to see the excitement on the picket lines from teachers and community members who support public education — even if he disagrees with them on the details.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Negotiators for 30,000 striking Los Angeles teachers and America's second-largest school district returned to the bargaining table on Saturday for a third day of contract talks mediated by the mayor, as educators took a weekend break from picket lines.
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Here are popular titles that we're hearing could be among the first impacted… The Walking Dead (AMC) The picket lines could stake the zombie hit, which starts season 303 production on May 230 — the same day the Writers Guild of America's current contract expires.
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" CWA called on its members, who have been working without a contract since last August, to "dig in, be prepared, join picket lines, picket Verizon Wireless Stores, and demonstrate the commitment and solidarity that have been the values we've lived by throughout CWA's proud history.
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SWEAT A group of factory workers, friends who have shared much over the years, find their relationships threatened when layoffs and picket lines become a part of their lives in this play by Lynn Nottage ("Ruined") that earned her the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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A GoFundMe fundraising effort called "Tacos for Teachers" has raised nearly $30,000 to send taco trucks to the picket lines at schools in Los Angles to feed teachers who are striking following months of failed negotiations over class sizes, pay raises and school staffing.
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PHILADELPHIA (CNN)With United Auto Workers still patrolling the picket lines in their strike against General Motors, presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden spent Tuesday drawing sharp distinctions over their plans for health care in a way that could directly impact those on strike.
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This is not the first time in the 2020 primary that Democratic candidates have weighed in on the side of workers and drawn attention to labor issues across the US. Multiple candidates have joined picket lines and declared their support for labor this election cycle.
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It was the first day of sunny weather in Los Angeles, after four days of rain that doused teachers on picket lines across the sprawling school district, which had been keeping its 1,200 campuses open on a limited basis with administrators and substitute teachers.
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Major roads were blocked off across Catalonia on Friday and several main streets in Barcelona were closed to traffic in anticipation of the marches, as well as picket lines that had begun springing up, while regional trains and the city's metro were running on a reduced timetable.
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The DUP's Gavin Robinson, who is fighting to retain his Westminster seat in East Belfast, said O'Neill should "lead her team back into the Assembly where decisions can be made", rather than "taking selfies on picket lines" outside hospitals where staff are engaged in industrial action.
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Strategists said it also could tie his reputation to the outcome, with a quick deal giving him a boost while drawn-out scenes of the union's 30,000 teachers, about a third of whom are Latino, on picket lines could harm his standing with key Democratic constituencies.
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Sanders touted that he had "walked on more picket lines all over this country than I can remember," all the while vowing to put an "immediate moratorium" on cuts to pension benefits overseen by the federal government if elected next year, a pledge that drew lingering applause from conferencegoers.
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In fact, it wants to "show such a massive presence that (it) disrupts business as usual in downtown LA." An estimated 32,000 Los Angeles teachers and staff members hit the picket lines this week, demanding lower class sizes, higher salaries and more counselors and nurses in over 1003,000 schools.
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Schools will be open no matter what — administrators, volunteers and a legion of newly hired substitute teachers are expected to fill in the gap while union members are on the picket lines, but that should leave staffing levels at roughly 8 percent of coverage for a typical day.
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Speaking to the press about his decision, Jones was every bit as clear, incisive and bold as he's earned a reputation for being over his years in Baltimore: "When players walked out years ago and walked the picket lines and stuff, they did that for reasons like this," he said.
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But workers and organizers who have won hard-fought workplace elections or led strikes — as we saw among teachers in so many states this spring and on hotel picket lines in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco — also offer the best insights needed to overcome defeat this fall, in 2020 and beyond.
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It began with letters banged out on his typewriter, then moved on to fights in the courts, including the Supreme Court (all of which he lost), and ultimately evolved into picket lines, for which Kameny required his fellow protesters to don suits and ties and (for the women) dresses and pumps.
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The teachers' uprisings, from West Virginia onward across the country, garnered weeks of front-page news and are no doubt helping to fuel the strikes already happening or pending this fall: Thousands of Washington State teachers are walking the picket lines, and Seattle and Los Angeles teachers voted to authorize their own potential strikes.
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New York (CNN Business)After almost 50,000 General Motors employees ended their second day and are set to begin their third day on the picket lines, we are learning more about their demands and how the strike is affecting GM. Here are six things you may have missed: Who pays for striking workers' health care?
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Without their ability to pay the taxes that support the rest of society, the social contract will dissolve Inadequate education funding has created the conditions that make teaching the daily struggle that has finally drawn teachers and families to the picket lines: unmanageable class sizes, inadequate resources and facilities, cuts to essential medical and mental-health school services and more.
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These "red-diaper babies," as they called themselves, having grown up marching on union and civil rights picket lines, taught the rest of us that mass movements need clear goals, and strategy to achieve those goals—that the purpose of organizing is to involve more people in the movement, to get them to take some sort of action to end the war.
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" When a similar question was put to Sanders days earlier at the Minnesota State Fair, the 77-year-old -- who keeps a hustling campaign schedule -- issued a challenge of his own: "Follow me on the campaign trail," he said, eventually asking that he be judged "on the number of picket lines that I've been on with working people throughout my entire life.
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The community's response has become a contemporary parable of hospitality, chronicled in news accounts and memorialized on plaques: the residents of a remote region who fed and housed thousands of strangers in schools, halls and even their own homes; the striking bus drivers who left picket lines to ferry frightened passengers; the air traffic controllers who, once the skies were silenced, used their down time to peel potatoes and cook meals for the involuntary visitors.
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