picketing
standing or marching, usually while holding a placard or sign, in front of a workplace, embassy, etc., as during a strike or demonstration: Local people have dropped off food supplies and newspapers for the picketing workers outside the plant.
Military, Navy, Air Force. acting as a guard in front of other troops or vessels to warn against an enemy advance: The enemy made us defend every inch, and it wasn’t long before our picketing troops ahead were engaged.The British squadrons had been weakened by the ambush on their picketing submarines.
the act of standing or marching with placards or signs in front of a workplace, embassy, etc., as during a strike or demonstration: Peace activists instituted regular picketing of the weekly cabinet meetings and held vigils throughout the country.
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How to use picketing in a sentence
In one ad he walks a dog along the sidewalk in front of suburban homes with picket fences.
Raphael Warnock’s campaign for the moral high ground | Clyde McGrady | January 2, 2021 | Washington PostMany workers’ groups, blocked from picket lines and protests due to pandemic restrictions, have been driven online.
Thousands of Amazon workers will walk off the job today to fight for fair pay and COVID protections | Ian Mount | November 27, 2020 | FortuneRecently, studies of the picket fence’s color have cast doubt on its origins.
STEVE may be even less like typical auroras than scientists thought | Maria Temming | November 12, 2020 | Science NewsThis session was thusly canceled and tickets were refunded when Ocasio-Cortez and Warren announced they would not cross the picket line, would have taken place on Monday night.
The New Yorker Festival sees record ticket sales on its virtual pivot | Kayleigh Barber | October 8, 2020 | DigidayThere’s this game-of-life kind of thing — you’re raised to believe that you need the nice house with the picket fence, the car.
And sure enough, before long, immigration activists in North Carolina were picketing Hagan at campaign events.
Latinos Aren’t a ‘Cheap Date’ for Democrats Anymore | Ruben Navarrette Jr. | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Klan is standing up to the 'God Hates Fags' protestors in light of the WBC's picketing of military funerals.
When Hate Collides: The KKK Meets the Westboro Baptist Church | Justin Green | December 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps the saddest note came from an Alabama paper: "No Walmart workers in attendance at Mobile Walmart picketing".
Unions Organize Walmart Protests; Rest of the Nation Goes Shopping | Megan McArdle | November 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMiners who were working under killer conditions were shot at while picketing.
It also legalised peaceful picketing, that particular form of persuasion with which a democratic age has become only too familiar.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowUnder one of these trees they reined up after a ride of two hours, and picketing their horses, prepared breakfast.
Martin Rattler | R.M. BallantyneThe Rappahannock river flowed between the Yankee and the Rebel armies, each picketing its own side of the stream.
Reminiscences of a Rebel | Wayland Fuller DunawayUsually injunctions were sought to prevent not violence, but strikes, picketing, or boycotting.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig Perlmanpicketing is illegal when accompanied by violence, threats, intimidation, and coercion.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig Perlman
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