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Employees of the BBC form a picket line during a strike in May 2005. Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called pickets or picketers) [ 1 ] congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place.
The picket was beaten unconscious and the policeman's baton broke in half. [18] In the BBC's report, filmed from the same vantage point, the footage was cut just before the policeman began beating the picket. [80] In 2014, a spokesman for the BBC claimed that the crew had "failed to record some of the violence due to a camera error". [81]
The Grunwick dispute was a British industrial dispute involving trade union recognition at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Chapter Road, Dollis Hill in the London suburb of Willesden, that led to a two-year strike between 1976 and 1978.
In continuing to work, or taking jobs at a workplace under current strike, strikebreakers are said to "cross picket lines". Some countries have passed laws outlawing strikebreakers to give more power to trade unions, while other countries have passed right-to-work laws which protect strikebreakers.
On 23 May 2005, Davis crossed picket lines during a day of industrial action by BBC staff over announced job cuts. Other notable broadcasters who turned up for work during the strike included Terry Wogan , Shelagh Fogarty and Declan Curry .
Tony Dubbins, General Secretary of the National Graphical Association, on the picket line during the Wapping dispute. The Wapping dispute was a lengthy failed strike by print workers in London in 1986.
Paris Hilton was hailed as a “comrade” after being spotted at a picket line with striking workers protesting cuts planned cuts to local radio stations outside the BBC. The US socialite smiled ...
The NUM had a "Triple Alliance" with the ISTC and the railway unions. Solidarity action was taken by railway workers and few crossed picket lines, [20]: 150 but the NUM never asked the railway unions to strike. [20]: 136 In contrast, Scargill demanded that steel workers not cross miners' picket lines and only work to keep furnaces in order.