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In a move that could impact non-labor groups engaged in direct action, picketing, or protest, Georgia’s Senate Bill 469 includes felony penalties for “criminal trespass” and, unbelievably, “conspiracy to commit criminal trespass”—the punishment being a $10,000 fine or a year in jail, or possibly both. That this is specifically included in a bill that cracks down on organizations’ right to picket outside a workplace or company seems to indicate that a union or other group engaged in picketing could be charged with a crime for the activity of one member who crosses the line. 

And in the bill, the line is pretty nebulous. The bill has this to say about what would constitute “unlawful” picketing:  …

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