picket line

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Unlike in the NFL, where top players like San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana crossed a picket line during the 1987 NFL Players Assn. strike, unionized baseball players have remained united.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Batista Filho said the plant has enough workers crossing the picket line to run a partial shift this week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

A year after his appearance in Hazard, he traveled to southwest Virginia and stood on the picket line in solidarity with the striking miners.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Local Boeing officials in St. Louis have said the company is accelerating recruitment of replacement workers and welcoming back employees who cross the picket line.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

More than a thousand women journeyed from thirty states to take their turn on the picket line.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler