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  Charles Shoebottom, a meat cutter for Detroit's Chicago Beef Co., 
is on strike--but none of his co-workers are. The Detroit News 
reports that Roger Robinson of United Food & Commercial Workers 
Local 876 said workers at the company "rejected [a] proposed 
contract more than once, voted to go on strike, and then backed out 
when the strike was called"--though Shoebottom did not.

To turn the picket point into a picket line, Local 876 brought in 
replacement strikers:

     Motorists passing by daily on Gratiot [Avenue] honk horns and 
wave in support of men and women on a picket line outside the plant.

     Those pickets, however, except for striking meat cutter Charles 
Shoebottom, are not company workers. They are hourly help hired by 
the union to man the line and carry signs.

Actually, Shoebottom had company when he first struck: "Of two other 
employees who walked with Shoebottom," the News notes, "one is in 
prison and the other took another job."