picket
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Mamdani walked the picket lines with nurses and addressed a rally of union workers on May Day.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Matching the level of support at Wimbledon in 1973 will take some doing because, as in any workplace, there will be players prepared to cross a metaphorical picket line outside the entrance to Centre Court.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Executives said the plant has enough workers crossing the picket line to run a partial shift during parts of the strike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
As with earlier strikes, during the 2019 teachers walkout, administrators crossed teachers’ picket lines to keep schools open and hold things together — overseeing food distribution and student supervision during the six-day work stoppage.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
And there are photos of them doing stuff in the world: cleaning the litter in Carkeek Park, volunteering in a soup kitchen, marching with picket signs at the capitol building in Olympia.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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