picket
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The legal fight carries broad implications for a mayor who focused his campaign on affordability and has walked picket lines for workers seeking better wages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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
The 24-hour industrial action began at 07:00 BST on Thursday and ended at 07:00 on Friday, but there were no picket line demonstrations.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Around the small front yard there was a picket fence.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
And unions have been printing and distributing signs, organizing pickets and mega-rallies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
On pickets, speeches captured the dark but defiant mood.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
The NUM sent protesters - known as flying pickets - to disrupt and pressure working miners.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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
All of our drills and our fatigue duties are transacted under the insolent glare of rebel pickets.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
Union members picketed the factory until they were prohibited from doing so by a judge.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
The workers are currently picketing outside the Stage This studio in Sun Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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
Longshoremen started picketing after their six-year labor contract with the United States Maritime Alliance expired at midnight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
Paul insisted that the picketing would “visualize the movement to the man and woman on the street.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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