Sentences with phrase «picket lines last»
Teachers in Providence, R.I., walked picket lines last week in a dispute over health - care coverage, while the mayor threatened to fire them if they did not return to work.
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Last night a group of students occupied a university meeting room in support of the strike and UVW says that a number of LSE lecturers have been down to speak on the picket line.
The key issue working against Golden was not pension reform, but rather his crossing of a picket line when CWA members went on strike against Verizon last year.
D √ © j √ † vu all over again, as this awards season threatens to be cloudy replay of last year's WGA strike, except with prettier picket lines.
A recently ratified teachers» contract in Chicago promises to make the next several Septembers as forgettable as the last few: no strikes, no heated picket lines, and no delayed school openings.
«Most teachers will be on the picket line by 3 p.m. [Friday],» Barbara Goodman, a spokeswoman for the 21,000 - member Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, said late last week.
But last week, Chicago's teachers were very visibly voting with their feet: According to Jihan, a CTU activist, union sign - ins suggest that each day 90 percent of teachers were on the picket line.
«Parent choice can only make all schools better,» he says, paraphrasing a favorite line on the placards of the parents who picketed Perkins in Albany last winter and in Downtown Manhattan last month when he held a hearing about charters.
The last video stages a picket line, precisely where Taiwanese in reality had acted as strikebreakers in a British - led protest against globalization.