How To Use Picket line In A Sentence
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Very few workers were willing to cross the picket line .
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Goodenow and his cohorts tell the players that fans support them, but just who the heck does the NHLPA think will back their picket line when the owners turn to replacement players next winter?
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Today it probably has more use keeping strikers warm on picket lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever I picket my workplace the police tell us that the law says we can only have six people on the picket line.
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Meanwhile the resolve of some 18,000 engineers and technical workers to continue walking the picket lines remains strong.
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Members on one picket line set up a barbecue to cook breakfast.
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A group of women on the picket line symbolised the strikers ' militant mood.
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During the course of the protest, riot police arrested 23 strikers and mounted attacks on the picket lines.
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No one tried to cross the picket lines.
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Some of our members were crossing picket lines in which other members were marching.
Christianity Today
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That's right, that's what they call a picket line.
Oral History Interview with Robert Cole, May 10, 1981. Interview H-0311. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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But victory was thrown away by the Labour leadership, dissociating itself from even a raised fist on a picket line.
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They hire heavies to drive minibuses and intimidate our picket lines.
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On the picket line there was the deafening sound of car horns tooting support, and strikers cheering, singing and chanting.
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I don't see myself crossing the picket line.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the 1977 strike, firemen recall the police waving their overtime payslips in front of the picket lines.
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Candidates for graduate issues officer were asked whether they would cross picket lines should unionised workers on campus go on strike.
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Since the union representing taxi drivers has indicated they would respect picket lines, a walkout would effectively shut down taxi service to the entire city.
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When they are oligomerized by a gold particle or by liganding, they have a much lower chance of crossing a picket line, due to the increased interactions with the anchored membrane-protein pickets.
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Another 200 workers, comprising Teamsters, electricians, sheet metal workers, operating engineers, boilermakers and pipe fitters, honored machinists' picket lines during the strike.
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It has been reported that some SFU instructors have supported the striking workers by refusing to cross picket lines.
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Several drivers honk their horns in support and the huddle of firefighters on the picket line lift their arms in grateful acknowledgement.
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Workers were subjected to intimidation as they crossed the picket line.
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They are known as ‘Scummers’, a term going back to a dock strike in the fifties, when blackleg labour was brought in to breach the picket lines.
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In the latter, a meatpacker disowns his own brother for crossing the picket line.
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And if that doesn't work, they must cross the picket line and proudly vow to put patients first.
The Sun
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They struck on Tuesday of last week, when many strikers joined the picket line, and were due out again this Thursday.
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Sixty mineworkers defied a Coal Industry Tribunal order this week to disband their picket line outside Wesfarmers Premier Coal in Collie, Western Australia.
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Casting amateur actors in these shows is tantamount to using scabs in the midst of a strike, and acting in one of these shows is akin to crossing a picket line.
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Meanwhile the locked out picket line remains in place, in spite of the onset of winter with its zero overnight temperatures, strong winds, rain, sleet, and light falls of snow.
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I used to be a postman but left to find a better job as normal people do i also "scabbed" and crossed the pathetic picket line.....
Heads must roll at the Royal Mail
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While they're out manning the picket lines, Billy is left home to care for his senile grandmother.
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Firefighters in Wales left the picket line in an unsuccessful attempt to save a life.
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Will she now think twice before joining the picket line again?
The Sun
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Dawn picket lines were set up Monday following a weekend walkout over pay.
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One in five crossed picket lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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They join no picket line.
The Sun
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The local press ignored them, probably because there was no colliery in the community and there was therefore no local story of strike-breakers crossing picket lines.
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While the strikers walk the picket lines, more than 20 employees have decided to continue working.
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I don't agree with strikes or picket lines.
The Sun
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On November 26, French riot police broke through a picket line at a mint producing the new euro coins in Pessac, near Bordeaux.
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Strike leaders now fear thousands of the medics will cross picket lines as they do not support the action.
The Sun
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On the other, a wholly different set of images, of queues of frustrated holidaymakers fuming about missing their flights, of headteachers and plucky parents battling to keep classrooms open in the face of union bullying, a photographers' hunt to find Ed Miliband crossing a picket line, perhaps even a punch-up with the police, if the Daily Mail really gets lucky.
Public sector pensions: after the strike, the settlement | Editorial
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They join no picket line.
The Sun
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Very few workers were willing to cross the picket line .
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Instead of a picket line, the strikers will volunteer at nursing homes and community centers across the province.
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I don't see myself crossing the picket line.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pipe fitters, electrical and sheet metal workers, brick masons and ironworkers were reported to have honored picket lines at the stadium worksite.
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Expect troops to be sent across picket lines to commandeer the red fire engines.
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The strikers returned to work on November 8 after three days on the picket line when managers threatened a lockout.
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The company president drove a truck through the picket line himself to deliver products and to pick up supplies.
A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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This means organising workplace collections and levies, taking strikers round meetings and workplaces in every town and city, organising delegations to demonstrations or to visit picket lines.
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Very few workers were willing to cross the picket line .
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Another 200 workers, comprising Teamsters, electricians, sheet metal workers, operating engineers, boilermakers and pipe fitters, honored machinists ' picket lines during the strike.
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That's why great and near-great Canadian rock acts have absolutely, unequivocally refused to cross that darn picket line, Grey Cup or no Grey Cup.
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The picket line was supplemented by daily long-range air patrols by naval aircraft.
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And if that doesn't work, they must cross the picket line and proudly vow to put patients first.
The Sun
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Good luck on the picket line, Robbie.
The Sun
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The local press ignored them, probably because there was no colliery in the community and there was therefore no local story of strike-breakers crossing picket lines.
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The unions were organising a London weighting battle bus to tour round the picket lines, and pickets were to lobby the department of education.
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Some of our members were crossing picket lines in which other members were marching.
Christianity Today
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Conversation halted on the picket line as the strikers waited to catch a glimpse of their temporary replacements.
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On the sacked workers' picket lines curries, samosas, pakora and Indian sweets were available.
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He said the strikes were unnecessary and praised the 40 per cent of junior doctors who shunned the picket line.
Times, Sunday Times
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Striking women, many of them in their teens, formed picket lines outside their workplaces, trying to convince the scabs to join them.
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In 1997, in solidarity with striking dockworkers in Liverpool, longshore workers refused to cross a picket line to unload the ship.
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The government will say that the ACTU has passed a motion condemning criminal conduct so it should also condemn workers standing on a picket line refusing to let scabs in because that's criminal conduct.
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The latter was happy to be walking the fairways of Sandwich instead of battling with strikers on the picket lines.
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Strike leaders now fear thousands of the medics will cross picket lines as they do not support the action.
The Sun
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They are also astute at maintaining public sympathy by regularly deserting the picket lines to save lives.
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So far, there has been very little violence on the picket line.
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She struggled through snowdrifts up to her knees to get to the picket line, she held her sign high even when the winter winds gusted so strongly they threatened to carry it away—and threatened to carry her away.
Uprising
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I don't agree with strikes or picket lines.
The Sun
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He said the strikes were unnecessary and praised the 40 per cent of junior doctors who shunned the picket line.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one point in time, Jackie considers becoming a scab and crashing through the picket lines.
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Teamsters truck drivers who deliver packages for United Parcel Service, for example, have said they will honor the janitors' picket lines.
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He stood his ground throughout his challenging line of duty, which included the Battle of Orgreave, when police clashed with strikers on picket lines at the British Steel coking plant.
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They threaten to strike, create picket lines you can't cross, retaliate against scabs, and all the rest.
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Union leaders should call for collections, delegations to the picket lines and mass pickets to stop any scabbing.
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With the support of the stagehands and actors, who refused to cross the picket lines, the walkout closed down 18 Broadway musicals.
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Workers were subjected to intimidation as they crossed the picket line.
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While the university's general staff were not involved in the stoppages some joined picket lines.
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There are now only 100 strikers left on the picket line.
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One in five crossed picket lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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We won't win this dispute by standing around braziers on picket lines.
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Staff manned a picket line on each of the three gates at the approaches to the factory.
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The picket lines at railway stations, schools and Dublin Airport are only the most visible signs of a huge discontent that is now sweeping Ireland.
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In 1946, almost two million workers, including 300,000 meatpackers and 750,000 steelworkers, walked picket lines.
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Norton and other strikers extended their picket lines to other areas of the state, where they say they've found a sympathetic public.
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Museum spokespersons claim that 90 of the strikers have crossed the picket line, and the galleries and other museum facilities are functioning as usual.
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So far, there has been very little violence on the picket line.
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Picket lines enjoyed public support yesterday with motorists blowing their horns.
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The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation.
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Workers were subjected to intimidation as they crossed the picket line.
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Our strike is solid, with around two thirds of strikers attending picket lines.
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The company president drove a truck through the picket line himself to deliver products and to pick up supplies.
A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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Firefighters left picket lines during strikes last November to help fight fires in which lives were in danger.
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Two of those killed were children, aged two and five, who suffocated when teargas was fired at the picket line.
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Abuse was hurled at workers who crossed the picket line.
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Over the weekend about 200 trucks were involved in traffic slowdowns across the city, while picket lines have been set up at numerous transport centers as well as at the 40 companies involved in the dispute.
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Some police on duty at picket lines outside hospitals had already attracted attention for wearing badges supporting the nurses' campaign.
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Wives of picket line unionists were recipients of anonymous correspondence apparently aimed at driving a wedge between them and their husbands, with a view to ending the dispute in the company's favour.
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Other workers should organise delegations to council picket lines in every area.
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: * rustle rustle rustle* great visual … Can't wait for the picket line to form around 815.
Stand Firm
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So far, there has been very little violence on the picket line.
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A picket line was a picket line and anyone who crossed it was a scab.
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As the strike went on, a carnival atmosphere developed on the picket line, with strikers blowing French-style horns.
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I'm willing to write to my local MP and MPP and join the picket line if necessary to make sure that this highly valuable nay essential service is maintained.
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Good luck on the picket line, Robbie.
The Sun
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The police then charged the picket line with attack dogs.
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Will she now think twice before joining the picket line again?
The Sun
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Only during the night... the picket lines being close together, the firing of the skirmishers caused frequent alarms.
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Paisley stood on a picket line outside the Ballylumford power station in Larne and tried to persuade workers not to go in.
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We only use feedbags when we go off trail riding and they are on the picket line.
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Today it probably has more use keeping strikers warm on picket lines.
Times, Sunday Times
