picket lines
Workers blocking entrances
Picket lines are barriers formed by striking workers or protesters outside a workplace, intended to discourage others from entering.
Workers walk the picket line carrying signs, chanting, or distributing leaflets.
To cross a picket line is to enter despite the protest—an act of betrayal in labor solidarity.
The union set up picket lines at every entrance.
- trade unionsWorker collectives for negotiations
- locked outUnable to enter
- strikesRefusals to work collectively
- unionJoining into one
- wildcat strikeUnauthorized work stoppage
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- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- class struggleclass conflict, class warfare, class divide, class struggle, class consciousness
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Dried wound coverings
strikebreakers · crossing the line · blacklegs · union busting · finks
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Disrupting worker organizing efforts
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