picket
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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
You would like to get married, have 2.5 kids and buy a house with a white picket fence.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Owning a house with a white picket fence?
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Speaking on the picket line at the RVH on Monday, Dr Steven Montgomery, chairman of the BMA's Northern Ireland resident doctors committee, said everyone is "furious at the situation".
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Mom had chrysanthemums planted along the sidewalk and along the front fence—which was actually white picket.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Despite some arrests, the authorities seem unable to prevent the pickets.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 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
“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
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
Less than three dozen people picketed outside of OpenAI’s offices, but the demonstration sparked a bitter feud on an effective altruist forum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
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
They were known as "scabs" by striking miners, who picketed as they arrived at work.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
Strikers picketed on public roads near the mine.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
“If Augusta National wants people picketing outside their gates,” he says, “they’d stop the gnome.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
But for now, WGA’s staff union will be picketing outside of its Fairfax offices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
But during the Oscars, which was produced by Quincy Jones, Goldberg, who was hosting, took a swipe at the civil rights leader who was picketing across town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
The law states that it does not “prohibit any expressive conduct including peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration.”
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2026
On the second day of picketing, the temperature barely reached above freezing.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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