Lorries carrying coal were running the gauntlet of striking miners picketing the colliery gates.
Some even provided coffee and doughnuts for their beloved doormen picketing at their door.
Fantastic demands are still made, such as the return of secondary picketing, but these are half-hearted rituals.
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It is a sensitive subject and companies fear picketing and other similar reprisals.
The NASUWT union said all five specialist teachers, based at Mount Education Support Centre, were picketing at the Civic Centre.
Earlier CBI director general Digby Jones said trade unions for were "increasingly irrelevant", particularly when they still called for secondary picketing.
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Regarding the unions, a notorious incident in 1986 saw him drive his Mercedes through a camp set up by unionists who were picketing a BGC site.
The continued lockout, amid picketing by 1, 050 workers, began after the union failed to win lower health-care costs and a return to a single wage rate.
Mr. LEE STROBEL (Author, Exploring The Da Vinci Code): I think a lot of Christians have realized that the boycotting and picketing approach really isn't very productive.
She tackled the unions not by producing, like Heath, a single comprehensive statute but by a series of measures, each dealing with a particular abuse, such as aggressive picketing.
He admits that trade unions had hoped to use the charter to attack the Thatcher labour laws, such as one barring secondary picketing, but says that is now impossible.
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Andrew Neil, then the editor of the Sunday Times, said on Radio 4's The Media Show this week that Thatcher played a crucial role in the publisher's victory, and not just by outlawing secondary picketing.
But on the other side of the picket line Australia's union leaders now face new laws, common nowadays in Europe and America, which reduce the power unions have traditionally wielded through secondary picketing and sympathy strikes.
It said there were reports there will be anything from informational picketing on the Golden Gate Bridge to efforts to shut down traffic on the bridge as well as all ferry services, though those possibilities have not been confirmed by the unions themselves.
While broad majorities of the court have voted to affirm protections for such long-recognized forms of expression as picketing, movies and now videogames, conservatives have outvoted liberals to confer First Amendment rights on business and void campaign-finance regulations that advocates say promote fairer elections.
Likewise, Tatchell accepts that repealing section five could open the door to displays like those of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, whose leaders are currently banned from entering the UK. The group has gained notoriety for picketing military funerals while brandishing lurid slogans condemning homosexuality.
There was some picketing by the local arts council and some unwelcome, unflattering news coverage, and neighborhood kids who cared nothing about Emily Dickinson or her house started egging the place and draping our noble birches with toilet paper, and for a while there it was like Halloween every day.
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