Word: picketeers
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...union, but Carey objected that the mediators' plan did not provide for arbitration on possible pay cuts for employees shifted from piecework to hourly pay; some, he said, stood to lose 37? an hour. He also objected to the suggestion that of 93 strikers fired for alleged picket-line violence, 57 be rehired and the other cases submitted to arbitration. Carey wanted them all rehired...
Barely had the walkout begun last week than it turned violent. As nonstrikers tried to drive through the picket lines, the strikers threw themselves on the cars. The thin line of Long Island police, under orders not to carry nightsticks, was repeatedly overwhelmed. Once, as a mob of pickets rushed to an entrance to head off workers, a cop stood aside. "What the hell was I going to do?" he muttered. "I was outnumbered...
...cafeteria with several weeks' supply of frozen meats and vegetables, and mounted cameras at the gates to record the struggle to stop incoming cars. Few production workers were able to get through. The union offered to give 4,000 nonproduction-line workers, including engineers, safe-conduct through the picket lines provided they turned out no planes. But the company flatly refused the I.A.M. offer...
...weeks the two sides were close to an agreement on wages and length of contract, had already agreed to shelve the hot time-study issue for later negotiation. But the sessions finally foundered over the company's refusal to take back 100 workers accused of violence on the picket lines (TIME...
...secret meeting in Philadelphia with Federal Mediator John Murray. The meeting, however, was called less to bargain collectively than to set up rules for further meetings. Said Mediator Murray: "The strike couldn't be settled in anything less than two weeks." While they waited, men in the picket lines heaped up more stones, stirred their chilled feet, and chanted in derisive mockery of Westinghouse's advertising slogan, "You can't be sure if it's Westinghouse...