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Picketing is a common tactic used by trade unions during strikes, who will try to prevent dissident members of the union, members of other unions and non-unionised workers from working. Those who cross the picket line and work despite the strike are known pejoratively as scabs.
The strike is credited with inventing the moving picket line, a tactic devised to keep strikers from being arrested for loitering. [ 26 ] It also adopted a tactic used before in Europe, but never in the United States, of sending children to sympathizers in other cities when they could not be cared for by strike funds.
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.
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became common during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labor became important in factories and mines. As ...
Union busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, worker organizing, and strike actions. [1]
Picketing began in front of the newspaper’s entrance Monday at 9:00 a.m. The NewsGuild of New York, ... Should the strike continue into Tuesday, it will be the first time a strike has interacted ...
Picketing, in which people surround an area (normally an employer). Sit-ins , in which demonstrators occupy an area, sometimes for a stated period but sometimes indefinitely, until they feel their issue has been addressed, or they are otherwise convinced or forced to leave.
Sep. 23—PROCTORVILLE — The Fairland quick-strike offense proved to be the difference as the Dragons pulled off a key OVC win in a 40-35 shootout over the Gallia Academy Blue Devils on Friday ...