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Hawth Hill
 
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Default Starbucks Obstructing First Union Vote

in article , Wm James at
wrote on 06/15/2004 2:17 PM:

> That's the purpose of a picket line. Otherwise strikers would walk
> around in FRONT of a building in public view to express their message
> instead of blocking the gates of a plant around back where employees
> enter. Strikes are primarialy acts of terrorism, attempts at
> intimidation using threats and violence. Otherwise there's no purpose
> to a picket line.



In the case of Thornhill vs. Alabama the Supreme Court held that there is a
First Amendment right to publicize a dispute between workers and their
employer. The fact that they do so in a way that you, a bigot and
ignoramus, don't approve of is of no moment.

Workers have a constitutional right to both publicize their grievances,
their dispute with their employer, and to appeal for the support of others.

If you don't like that, go to a country with a different constitution.

HH