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Salud Garcia, 80, walks a picket line to fight for higher wages.

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

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

This perception of economic abundance spread in the 1950s with the post-WWII boom, perhaps best symbolised through the growth of single-family homes adorned with white picket fences.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Send back emails that are badly punctuated; return letters; picket Harrods.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

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

A West Midlands Police spokesperson said officers were still sent to pickets but did not explain why they reduced the number while the city council said it was warned of the move just hours beforehand.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

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

After months of stalled negotiations, pickets, strike threats and mounting financial uncertainty, PCC Community Markets has reached a tentative labor deal with its about 1,600 unionized hourly workers, both sides said Wednesday.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Longstreet sent Goree to find out what was happening and it turned out to be nothing much—skirmish of pickets in Anderson’s front.

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

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

The Harbor City facility was among 20 sites that were picketed across the state, with most of them concentrated in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 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

They were known as "scabs" by striking miners, who picketed as they arrived at work.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024

Others joined in only once or twice while on vacation; a few picketed while on their honeymoons.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“If Augusta National wants people picketing outside their gates,” he says, “they’d stop the gnome.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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

The law states that it does not “prohibit any expressive conduct including peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration.”

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

He and his people were out there, marching, demonstrating, picketing, putting pressure on the government.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson