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Union members last week held an information picket outside a Blue Jays baseball game in Toronto to highlight a call for all work-related duties to be paid, including boarding, delays and safety checks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Owning a house with a white picket fence?

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

The RMT said its previous strike on Tuesday "was strongly supported by RMT members with well attended picket lines at Tube stations and depots".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

A market in which private equity increasingly buys up single-family housing isn’t going to yield havens of picket fences and prosperity.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Leaning against an old picket fence, he whittled casually on a small piece of wood.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

While some earlier protests did turn violent, she wrote, recent pickets outside Portland’s ICE headquarters have featured lawn chairs and low energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

Collections were said to have been disrupted "due to industrial action by pickets" where police recently scaled down their presence.

From BBC ● May 24, 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

“I came through the pickets at night, you know. That can be very touchy.”

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

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

Outside a Disney Character Voices office earlier this month, dozens of actors picketed against video game companies for refusing to come to an agreement on using AI in video games.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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

SAG-AFTRA video game actors picketed outside Warner Bros., home of a major gaming studio, in Burbank while striking over artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

“Most of the Long Knives’ horses were picketed there.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III

Those early years were marked by bitter and sometimes brutal incidents involving picketing farm workers who screamed “ Huelga! “

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

WGA West staffers also played a key role in the strike, as they too joined the picketing lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

Ministers really didn't want to do that with NHS staff picketing outside the parliament.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

The picketing machinists benefited from a strike fund while they were off the job but were under increasing pressure as healthcare coverage lapsed for some families.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

The police refused to offer any protection to the protesters, who now were picketing in violation of a government order.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling