picket
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Huerta leapt into the fray, leading picket lines and marches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Members of the union in Taoyuan have "obtained the legal right to conduct a strike and establish strike picket lines", union secretary Chen Yen-kai told a news conference.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Sweeney said this had "provoked a significant picket and protest at the site".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
In 2023, workers accused the company of disrupting union activities, including implying workers could be dismissed for participating in a union protest and locking emergency exits on the day workers planned to picket outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Union members used the word scab for strikebreakers, people willing to cross the picket line and work during a strike.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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Women played a vital role in the dispute, organising food collections, distributions and fundraising, organising pickets and speaking at rallies.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
On pickets, speeches captured the dark but defiant mood.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
She was nurtured in the UFW headquarters in Central California, and she and her cousins joked that her family held pickets instead of picnics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
That’s the position workers promoted this week during pickets at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
Longstreet sent Goree to find out what was happening and it turned out to be nothing much—skirmish of pickets in Anderson’s front.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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A Jerusalem cafe picketed for weeks by observant Jews said Thursday it had agreed to shut on the Sabbath, bowing to demands despite counter-protests by secular Israelis.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
He picketed alone outside Google and Microsoft in his home city of Seattle, carrying a sign: “Death of Human Invention & Discovery = Depressing,” according to his social-media posts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The Harbor City facility was among 20 sites that were picketed across the state, with most of them concentrated in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
Workers picketed outside their newsroom in London to protest the proposed sale to Tortoise Media, arguing it had been “rushed through” without the support of the staff.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Sons and daughters joined their mothers to support their fathers as they marched or picketed around the Yard.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Schneider faces misdemeanor charges of stalking and targeted residential picketing in American Fork and similar charges in Provo, where he went after the Bricks & Minifigs corporate offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“If Augusta National wants people picketing outside their gates,” he says, “they’d stop the gnome.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
The law states that it does not “prohibit any expressive conduct including peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration.”
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2026
The union said it was preparing to challenge the injunction, but said it agreed to abide by the law on picketing.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
In the Suffragist, Paul suggested that women might not be arrested for picketing anymore.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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