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Picketing
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The presence at an employer's business of one or more employees and/or other persons who are publicizing a labor dispute, influencing employees or customers to withhold their work or business, respectively, or showing a union's desire to represent employees; picketing is usually accompanied by patrolling with signs.

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Labor Law; Labor Union.


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). Picketing is constitutionally guaranteed as free speech, but in some cases it may be limited by court order to prevent physical combat, blocking of entrances or threats to the public safety.



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Byline: PAUL KOLLER Paul Koller says trainers are turning on each other I WAS interested to hear of the presence of a secondary picket at Monmore on Friday by trainers from other tracks attempting to stop the BAGS meeting from taking place there.
The Court accepted the union's charter arguments that secondary pickets amounted to a freedom of expression for the members in a dispute with Saskatoon Pepsi plant.
She urged an end to unofficial secondary pickets and called on the striking National Bus and Rail Workers' Union and Dublin Bus management to return to the talks table to settle the Dublin Bus drivers' pay claim.
 
 
 
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