Judge Threatens to Jail Nuclear Plant Strikers

A federal judge issued a contempt order Friday and threatened to fine or jail some 2,000 laborers at the Seabrook nuclear power plant unless they end a three-day-old wildcat strike.

The strikers, who are protesting work conditions and layoffs, defied an earlier injunction ordering them back to work, and have refused to cross picket lines at the main gate of the reactor construction site.