on strike

Idioms  

1. Engaged in a work stoppage, as in The auto workers were on strike for the entire summer. The use of strike for a concerted labor stoppage undertaken to gain concessions from employers dates from the early 1800s. Today it is also used more loosely, as in Where washing dishes is concerned, Mom has announced that she's on strike. Also see go out, def. 4.

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Example Sentences

More than 400 staff at Strathclyde University, including technicians and security staff, are voting on whether to go on strike over job cuts.

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The union has also claimed technicians on strike could affect the ability of students to carry out work in laboratories.

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Remaining health workers sometimes juggle multiple jobs and often go on strike to demand higher salaries, and improved conditions.

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The current wave of protests began after shopkeepers in Tehran went on strike over the rising cost of living and the depreciating value of the currency.

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On 28 December, traders selling imported electronic goods in Tehran were jolted by the sudden currency collapse; they shuttered their shops, went on strike, and urged others in the bazaar to follow suit.

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