on strike in English

efusing to work in order to force an employer to agree to certain demands

Use "on strike" in a sentence

1. In 2018, Beefeaters went on strike for

2. Half the workforce are now on strike.

3. The student body thereupon came out on strike.

4. Blackleg - take the place of work of someone on strike

5. They tried every means to hold down the workers on strike.

6. If they go on strike, we can't deliver the goods on time.

7. Four days later, the workers of the Coral Mill went on strike.

8. I joined the workers on strike and was rapped over the knuckles.

9. The company's threat to sack anyone who went on strike was just bluff.

10. UPS workers went on strike today, leaving thousands of customers in the lurch.

11. Four million workers go on strike in France to protest against austerity measures.

12. The situation came to a head when the workers went out on strike.

13. Picketing led to violence and one company dismissed the union workers on strike.

14. It soon spreads across the whole province until nearly 70,000 workers are on strike.

15. In 1996 civil servants, nurses, and junior doctors went on strike over salary issues.

16. However, one day the train engineers were on strike, and Elise could not get home.

17. Meanwhile, you have the TV bloggers going out on strike, in sympathy with the television writers.

18. 5 The company locked out the workers, and then the rest of the work force went on strike.

19. Europe's toiling masses sometimes go on strike, leaving streets unswept and commuters stranded. Chinese expats find this shocking.

20. Firefighters suspend ballot Britain's firefighters have suspended a ballot on strike action after pay talks with local authority employers.

21. And not infrequently when certain rules or teachers displeased them, the students would walk out of school on strike.

22. 24 And not infrequently when certain rules or teachers displeased them, the students would walk out of school on strike.

23. Students at Fourah Bay College and other establishments had demonstrated and gone on strike during March to demand a multiparty system.

24. 18 When pilots or mechanics went on strike they could cause devastating problems, but flight attendants were still seen as replaceable parts.

25. Coupled with the fact that: The weather, Coupled with the fact that the trains were on strike, meant that few reporters turned up

26. Dear Comrades! When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike

27. Furthermore, the applicants' counsel did not dispute the statements of the agent for the Commission to the effect that out of approximately 15 000 Commission officials 73% went on strike, 10% carried out their duties, and the others were absent for reasons which were duly substantiated.

28. A total of 464 soil samples were collected, which defined a 60 metre X 300 metre copper soil anomaly on strike with known mineralization exposed in 3 Adits.A 2.3 kilogram composite grab sample of mineralized quartz vein was also collected and is reported to have assayed 2.69% copper, 14.4 grams per tonne silver and trace gold.

29. Their decision to go on strike was expedited by the release of Xhelai Ademi, an ethnic Albanian detainee, who had been under investigation for an attack on the residents of northern Kosovska Mitrovica and the throwing of two hand grenades on the members of the French KFOR, on which occasions 14 French soldiers and 22 Serbian civilians were wounded.