0 (any one of) a number of people employed at a factory etc who are on strike and who try to persuade workers not to go to work there, not to deliver goods there etc -- streikevakt
1 a soldier or a small group of soldiers on special duty, usually to guard against a sudden attack by the enemy -- vaktpost
2 to act as a picket (at) -- stå (streike)vakt
3 to place a group of soldiers, strikers etc somewhere as a picket -- gå streikevakt; sette opp vakt
In this case, 40 pickets outside the main entrance to a factory moved about in a continuous circle, thus obstructing vehicles and pedestrians.
At least those pickets hold no public office and have no public responsibility.
Even now the factory is being picketed and children are being kept away from school.
They have also had to patrol roads picketed by strikers in times of civil disturbance.
The ordinary hours of the civil guard, which have not been changed, are much shorter than those of the pickets.
We shall drift back to the bad old days of 1979, with secondary picketing and flying pickets.
He was charged with bias, his office was picketed and suggestions were made that his investigation was motivated by personal gain.
The booklet sets out perfectly good, standard guidelines as to what ought to be the behaviour of mass pickets.
