pickets
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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
That’s the position workers promoted this week during pickets at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
“Before Alice Paul and the pickets came, days would pass when the word suffrage didn’t appear in the dispatches,” a journalist wrote in the New York Sun.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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