Sentences with phrase «cross picket lines in»

The bash was cancelled after actors refused to cross picket lines in support of the Writers» Guild of America strike.

[234][235][236] That same month he came under criticism from sectors of the left for urging RMT members to cross picket lines in a proposed Underground strike because the latest offer had been «extremely generous», leading RMT general secretary Bob Crow to step down as a TfL board member.

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Ecklund reveals how scientists — believers and skeptics alike — are struggling to engage the increasing number of religious students in their classrooms and argues that many scientists are searching for «boundary pioneers» to cross the picket lines separating science and religion.

The power relationship between students and teachers was not as stark as that between workers and management, and so some students did raise their hands in class to argue that no one should cross the picket line.

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

Body on the line... A worker jumps in front of a truck in a bid to stop it crossing the picket line at Somerton yesterday.

There are two public defenders offices in the area and some are scared they will metaphorically cross the metaphorical picket line.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — «No Country for Old Men» and «There Will Be Blood» led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day - Lewis and Javier Bardem — but it remained in doubt whether any stars would cross striking writers» picket lines to attend the ceremony.

Guild leaders have said that if the strike continues, they will not allow writers to work on the Oscars, either, which might leave nominees and other celebrities forced to choose between attending the biggest night in show business or staying home to avoid crossing picket lines.

Nizan Shaked gives a thoughtful account of the event on Hyperallergic, and in the accompanying video documentation, we see Barbara Kruger speaking to a protestor only to then cross the picket line.

They have received extensive media coverage for these events both in the UK and internationally, and become possible suspects for any London art protests, as in Matthew Collings» description of the opening of Tate Modern in 2000: «Guilt - free art lovers crossed picket lines put up by envious artist - outsiders.

As the strike at Toronto's York University enters its fifth week, students at Osgoode Hall Law School face the choice of crossing the picket line to attend classes, take all classes on a pass / fail basis or access a course remediation framework, which would delay 3L students in writing the June bar exam.

Context is everything and to the Supreme Court it was important that those crossing the picket line were doing so in a location where that was readily and publicly observable.