Strike action
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Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a form of direct action in which employees collectively refuse to work. It is usually a response to empl
Workers' agitation as portrayed in Strike by Mihály Munkácsy (1895)
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike. Painted by Robert Koehler in 1886.
Strike action (1879), painting by Theodor Kittelsen
Female tailors on strike, New York City, February 1910
Picketing
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Picketing is a form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in, but it
Strike action
…from their stories, as a way to protest actions of their employer. Activists may form "flying squad" groups for strikes or other actions, a form of picketing, to disrupt the workplace or another aspect of capitalist production. Examples include supporting other strikers or unemployed workers, participating…
Employees of the BBC form a picket line during a strike in May 2005.
A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford during a strike on March 28, 2006, with members carrying picket signs
Picketing by WBC in Topeka, with the group's signature multi-colored picket signs
Union members picketing National Labor Relations Board rulings outside the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters in November 2007