The pickets continue. Twenty picketers circle outside the Mint building. Not sure what that chant means. "CCP works! We do!" Something like: This is a good college because we're good. "What do we want? Contracts!!! When do we want it? Now!!!"
Much better are the picketers around the corner at the West Building:
"No work!"
"Say what?"
"No contract!"
Give it up!
No contract!
Give it up!
No contract!
Say what?
Give it up!
They sashay side to side, arms in the air, bouncing, half-dancing, then cheering as beeping cars go by.
Across the street, another 20 pickets. Clearly, there are more than 60 picketers in three places now.
Michaline Mizeraczyk, 54, who's been at the college 25 years, working mostly in admissions, explains that the strike includes almost all of the office workers, too. Housekeeping, electricians, painters, maintenance workers, cafeteria workers, people who keep records, help with registration, etc. The Northeast resident is taking classes herself ... in math ... so she can get another associate's degree.
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