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

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

Some 4,200 nurses on strike at New York-Presbyterian are not covered by the deal and will stay on the picket line.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

Steve Parker, chief of the aerospace company’s defense segment, said in a Tuesday letter to workers that the company wouldn’t move off its basic contract terms and urged them to cross the picket line.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

The problem was riding through a picket line in the dark.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara