0 present participle of black --
1 to put a black substance on something or to make something black: --
2 If a trade union or other organization blacks goods or people, it refuses to handle or work with them. --
The firm's business is now down to one-fifth of what it was before this unreasonable blacking.
I have expressed my doubts about the effectiveness of the clauses on picketing and blacking.
Finally, it is worth dwelling just for a moment on the difference between blacking and a sympathetic strike.
Although they have an emergency procedure, this blacking increases the number of those at risk.
That is because the blacking would have affected only the stockholder's contracts with other parties.
He was referring, of course, to the action of blacking particular telephone calls and blacking certain mail.
We all know that the industrial practices of picketing and blacking started as attempts by trade unionists to counter the overwhelming power of employers.
It becomes very hard to argue that a considerable element of censorship is not involved in that kind of blacking.
