cross the picket line
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: to go to work while other employees at one's place of work are picketing
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The intrigue: Some nurses who initially decided to cross the picket line turned around shortly after to join it.
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Meira Gebel, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
And then Mayim, which was absolutely her right, elected not to cross the picket line during the [SAG-AFTRA] strike.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
Early Tuesday morning, a dumpster truck tried to cross the picket line and hit a protesting longshoreman, who was then taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
—Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
As a right-to-work state, dockworkers are not required to the ILA members, though the belief is that non-unionized workers would not cross the picket line.
—Ken Roberts, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Meira Gebel, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
And then Mayim, which was absolutely her right, elected not to cross the picket line during the [SAG-AFTRA] strike.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
Early Tuesday morning, a dumpster truck tried to cross the picket line and hit a protesting longshoreman, who was then taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
—Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
As a right-to-work state, dockworkers are not required to the ILA members, though the belief is that non-unionized workers would not cross the picket line.
—Ken Roberts, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Cross the picket line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cross%20the%20picket%20line. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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