picketers
Sign-carrying demonstrators
Picketers are people who stand outside a workplace, business, or other location as a form of protest or during a labor dispute.
They typically carry signs and attempt to discourage others from entering: Picketers blocked the factory entrance, The strikers joined the picketers on the sidewalk.
The term applies both to union workers on strike and to protesters demonstrating against a business or institution.
Joining into one
lockout · grievance · negotiation · mediation · arbitration · benefits · conditions · overtime
Signs carried at demonstrations
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- megaphonePortable voice amplifier
- bannerDisplayed strip with message
- slogansCatchy promotional catchphrases
leaflets · marching · crowd · assembly · solidarity · vigil · grievances · discontent
Pleading for a cause
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- boycottOrganized economic protest
petition · reform · cause · movement · dissent · resistance · awareness · mobilization
union
Joining into one
scabs · lockout · grievance · negotiation · mediation · arbitration · benefits · conditions · overtime · go-slow
placards
Signs carried at demonstrations
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- megaphonePortable voice amplifier
- bannerDisplayed strip with message
slogans · leaflets · marching · crowd · assembly · solidarity · vigil · grievances · discontent · blockade
advocacy
Pleading for a cause
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- organizingSystematically putting in order
boycott · petition · reform · cause · movement · dissent · resistance · awareness · mobilization · lobbying
- Labor Movementlabor leaders, union organizers, union leaders, labor activists, labor movement
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- crowdscrowd, horde, mob, throng, multitude
- noisemakersnoisemaker, air horn, bell, buzzer, kazoo
- parade participantsmarching band, floats, drum majors, majorettes, baton twirlers
- Leftistssocialists, communists, Marxists, anarcho-communists, democratic socialists
picketersscabs
Dried wound coverings
strikebreakers · crossers · blacklegs · finks · rats
picketersmanagement
Organizing and directing resources
employers · bosses · executives · owners · corporate leadership