pickets

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The city council said it had suspended collections across the city for the day due to the "mass pickets and protests" across its depots.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

Despite some arrests, the authorities seem unable to prevent the pickets.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

The Network started a website highlighting workers’ claims about Royal India and has held periodic pickets outside its Kirkland location since April 2023.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024

The performers union, SAG-AFTRA, hosted two Halloween pickets on Tuesday, “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble!” at Netflix and “Spooky Solidarity Day” at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2023

In the night they had built a stone wall, had set out pickets, had taken prisoners.

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