Picket

Picket definition:
To object publicly, on or adjacent to the employer's premises, to an employer's labor practices, goods or services. The most common form of picketing is patrolling with signs.

Picketing
n taking out processions or simply standing infront of offices in protest for any kind of disputes or disagreement to bring the matter into notice.

picketing
n. standing or parading near a business or government office usually with signs of protest or claims in labor disputes or public policy controversies (peace marches to pro- or anti-abortion advocates).

Pickets
Picketing is a tactic which is often used by workers during strikes.

Picketing consists of posting one or more union members at the site of a strike or boycott, in order to interfere with a particular employer's business or to influence the public against patronizing that employer. It can be reasonably regulated.

Picket: Peaceful public demonstration, on or near an employer's premises, in furtherance of an existing or proposed trade dispute. Picketers may not threaten, insult or abuse other workers.
Plaintiff: Person who brings a case to court.

After all, the trash can sits next to Lisa's house behind a short picket fence, with a sign saying that the garbage is off limits to the public. Rummaging through Lisa's trash now would most likely violate the Fourth Amendment.

the organized refusal of workers to remain on the job, usually accompanied by demands for a union contract, higher wages, better conditions or other employee desires, and possibly including a picket line to give voice to workers' demands and ...

The list of such statutory enactments is a large one, and includes laws relating to blacklisting, boycotting, conspiracy against working-men, interference with employment, intimidation, picketing and strikes of railway employes; ...

See also: Action, Cause, Law, Court, Public