Picketing (protest)

Pickets are unionized workers, strikebreakers deny access to their service in the event of a strike. Although each employee - even in the event of a veritable strikes - has the right to entering the service, it is possible pickets often discourage employees willing to work it. If pickets to prevent the activities of those willing to work deliberately, they engage in an improper way in the decision of third parties, not to participate in the labor fight (BAG DB 1988, p 1989).

Breach of the criminal law measures such as the necessities, the insult and the injury of those willing to work through picketing. If such illegal measures practiced, so they make the labor dispute only unlawful if it is covered by the union decision. Do the actions of the pickets of the individual participants from these the combat party, as such, can not be attributed, so that the strike is lawful. Incidentally, it is inadmissible to occupy the premises, otherwise an offense within the meaning of § 123 is realized as trespassing.

In the UK, 'Flying Pickets ' a long time were of great importance. Arthur Scargill in 1973 leader of the miners from Yorkshire. He sat in a big strike in 1974 'Flying Pickets ' a; this also blocked companies that did not participate in a strike. This contributed significantly to the success of the strike. Margaret Thatcher, prime minister from May 1979 to November 1990, they banned in the wake of the policy under its management ( Thatcherism: push back the fight against inflation, deregulation, the influence of the state and the trade unions on the economy, privatization of many state-owned enterprises ).