picket line

Example Sentences

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Monday's bin collections have been called off as agency workers joined refuse strikers on picket lines in Birmingham amid a separate dispute.

From BBC

While emphasizing that the fight was not over, the union representing Paris’ trash collectors admitted that they had run out of manpower on the picket line.

From Washington Times

The Los Angeles teachers’ union had asked its 35,000 members to walk out in solidarity and to avoid crossing the support workers’ picket lines.

From New York Times

Members of United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing 35,000 educators, counselors and other staff, joined the picket lines in solidarity.

From Seattle Times

United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents teachers and some other district employees, is not a party to the labor dispute, but said its members would not cross Local 99’s picket lines.

From New York Times