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    !Strike!
    !Strike!
    !Strike!
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    !Strike!

    By Jim Pangrazio

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    What if workers with grievances followed simple and obvious practices that gave them a chance to achieve their goals, rather than obeying rules established by the enemy that assure their defeat? And what if communities that consist largely of those workers realized that they can never establish decent living conditions for all unless they united against their common enemy? And also, what if a large corps of the armed forces, having sworn to defend the freedom of the American people, decided they should actually do just that? The result would be a thorough cleansing of the stables.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim Pangrazio
    Release dateApr 12, 2014
    ISBN9781310099526
    !Strike!
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    Jim Pangrazio

    The general consensus is that change is urgent. Yet those claiming to work toward that end choose illusory paths that serve more as an impediment to the change they profess to seek. It is a closed loop -- a path that follows itself -- a safe at home tour rather than an expedition in search of wherever. My plays attempt to untangle the complex knots created by repeated trips to nowhere by focusing on the fearful simplicity of uncontaminated life where acceptance and rejection meet to hash out what's bothering them.

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      !Strike! - Jim Pangrazio

      !STRIKE!

      Published by Jim Pangrazio at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Jim Pangrazio

      ISBN: 9781310099526

      [Stage separated into three segments by lighting which is turned on or off as action in each section is switched. In the center are workers of the elected strike committee. To one side are NLRB and other governmental officials. To the other are those connected to the employer. In that section there is a cubicle for union officials. At opening workers have elected a strike committee but are not yet on strike.]

      Scene 1

      (Workers from the committee and company negotiator meet. Large sign: Local 2036.)

      COMPANY REP: But you know that we can't accept those terms. We must have a contract that conforms to laws created for that purpose. And who are you anyway? – The international placed your local under administrative control.

      ELECTED STRIKE LEADER: We were democratically elected by over 90% of Local 2036 membership to serve as their representatives. Decertified or not, we represent all the workers at this plant.

      COMPANY REP: You must be officially recognized under the Wagner Act as a body that can negotiate and agree to terms that place all member workers under specific obligations.

      STRIKE CMTE MEMBER 1: What's the problem? We are governed by the workers that we represent. The first agreements between workers and bosses came before there was an official labor law to legitimize them. We agree on all the fundamental terms – pay, health, pension, etc.

      COMPANY REP: That's why we've stayed with this. It would be madness to have a work stoppage

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