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pickets

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According to the Grand Rapids Starbucks Workers Union website, citation pickets were held in several dozen cities in more than a dozen countries. Source: Internet

But Unifor, the union representing the workers, says they won’t take down fencing at the site, arguing the barricades are necessary to keep pickets safe from vehicle traffic into the facility. Source: Internet

Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. Source: Internet

For example, labour law may restrict secondary picketing (picketing a business connected with the company not directly with the dispute, such as a supplier), or flying pickets (mobile strikers who travel to join a picket). Source: Internet

In her 1856 memoir Wau Bun, Juliette Kinzie described the fort as it appeared on her arrival in Chicago in 1831: The fort was inclosed sic by high pickets, with bastions at the alternate angles. Source: Internet

Laws may prohibit obstructing others from conducting lawful business; outlaw obstructive pickets allow court orders to restrict picketing locations or behaving in particular ways (shouting abuse, for example). Source: Internet

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