go on strike

Example Sentences

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Rail workers at the Long Island Rail Road may go on strike at 12:01 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

This high-margin, nonflying income doesn’t burn fuel, go on strike, or suffer weather disruptions.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

"If we don't go on strike for better conditions, the jobs will remain unattractive, as we have seen in the past few years," Verdi spokesman Andreas Schackert told public broadcaster ZDF.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

The net result is that these prices are being driven artificially higher in the last few weeks of the year as sellers go on strike and wait for the new year.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 26, 2025

That same month, our Post and Telecommunications Corporation, or PTC, fired more than six hundred people, causing the other workers to go on strike.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda