on strike

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.

Example Sentences

Although it is not uncommon for single media outlets to go on strike in Italy, it is rare for the entire sector to hold a shutdown.

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The target set this time is for a minimum of 95% of "planned activity" to take place on strike days.

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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol has been overseeing a turnaround effort at the coffee retailer, but spent Thursday contending with a labor issue involving more than 1,000 employees who went on strike in 45 cities nationwide.

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Teaching and research staff at Lancaster University are to go on strike for two days in an escalation of a row over potential job losses.

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If resident doctors do go on strike, it will be hugely disruptive and bruising for the Scottish government.

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