Nothing says "Welcome to the UK" like a picket line and a replacement bus service.
Around 50 people joined a picket line at the MoD base at Donnington in Telford.
Nevertheless, the picket line held, the comics prevailed and the Comedy Store started paying.
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Patient Jack Williamson was among those supporting about 40 workers on the picket line at Pinderfields hospital.
About 100 MoD workers set up a picket line, waving flags and sounding horns outside the Donnington base.
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Teacher Linda Chandler Hughes, organised a picket line outside Northampton School for Girls.
As a labor leader, however, I would have a hard time crossing any picket line, even a virtual one.
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Labour and Plaid members refused to cross a picket line in March 2010.
But I think, as the statement from me says clearly, it's not our policy to cross the picket line.
We will advance their cause at the bargaining table, on the picket line and in the halls of Congress.
If there wasn a picket line that we wouldn't cross, would we go?
Despite the hostility on the picket line, the government insists any more money for firefighters must be matched with reform.
So if there's not a picket line in Smithville and that's where the conference is, we'll go to the conference.
Joining the picket line outside the council's offices was cook Trevolin Newell, who has worked for the council for 19 years.
"I've kind of started to move on, but they haven't, " he said from his car, on his way to the picket line.
Demonstrators estimated between five and 10 staff had crossed the picket line.
After the strike began on Friday, many drivers from other distribution firms refused to cross the picket line to fill up on fuel.
Regional officer for the NUT, Martin O'Gilvie, said there will not be a "hostile picket line" and it will be "more of a celebration of state education".
Labour and Plaid members also refused to cross a PCS picket line in March 2010 when the union was in dispute with the then Labour UK government.
Staff were proud of the museum and had been reluctant to strike, said TUC general secretary John Monks, who visited the picket line outside the museum on Monday.
The dinner was to be held at the Venetian, but Mayor Goodman said that he would not cross the picket line, and synagogue officials decided to go elsewhere.
They have extinguished it and returned to their picket line.
Alliance Party election candidate Kieran McCarthy, who joined the picket line, said the assistants felt this was the only course of action, having waited for 10 years for evaluation.
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An intervention from Patrick Harvie allowed the Green MSP to repeat his conerns about scheduling a pension reform debate which would exclude those MSPs who would not cross a picket line.
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie called for the first minister to tell his MSPs to cross the picket line if next week's strike action by the Public and Commercial Services union goes ahead.
And while many show-runners initially vowed not to cross the picket line, some will soon or have already returned to work in a non-writing capacity, thereby lessening the guild's leverage at the bargaining table.
Meanwhile Warwickshire police are continuing to investigate an arson attack on the home of a firefighter in Kenilworth who had just left his wife and children to stand on the picket line in Leamington Spa.
It is my understanding from the Communications Workers of America (CWA), that its subsidiary, The Newspaper Guild, is asking its members to support the virtual picket line but is not requesting that other organizations honor it.
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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.
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