Picket line

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Picket lines during the Hamburg port workers' strike in 1896

Pickets are unionized organized workers , in the event of a strike, strike-breakers from entering their office. Although every employee - even in the event of a regular strike - has the right to start work, picket lines often succeed in preventing employees who are willing to work.

Legal classification

Against the criminal breach measures such as the necessities , the insult and the injury of those willing to work by picketing. If such unlawful measures are practiced, they will only make the industrial action unlawful if this is covered by the union resolution. If the measures of the picket line are initiated by the individual participants, these cannot be attributed to the fighting party as such, so that the strike remains lawful. Incidentally, it is not permitted to occupy the company premises , otherwise trespassing is a criminal offense within the meaning of Section 123 of the Criminal Code .

Great Britain

For a long time, 'Flying Pickets' were very important in Great Britain. Arthur Scargill became Leader of the Yorkshire Miners in 1973. He used flying pickets in a major strike in 1974; these also blocked companies that were not involved in a strike. This contributed significantly to the success of the strike. Margaret Thatcher , Prime Minister from May 1979 to November 1990, banned them as part of the politics she pursued ( Thatcherism : fighting inflation, deregulation , reducing the influence of the state and the trade unions on the economy, privatizing many state-owned companies).

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