Ram Players Reaffirm Union Support

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

Oct. 14, 1987 12 AM PT

After another team meeting on Tuesday, the Rams vowed again to support the union and will return to the picket line today.

“We’ll remain on strike until something is done,” Ram player representative Carl Ekern said.

Forty of the 45 striking Rams attended Tuesday’s two-hour meeting. Among the missing was Eric Dickerson, but don’t expect the running back to cross the picket line.

“Eric says he’s not going in until his offensive line goes in,” defensive end Gary Jeter said. “And that’s real smart.”

Ekern said the Rams will meet again today.

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Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).