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
Patients in greater Lincolnshire are being warned of cancelled appointments when hospital doctors go on strike for six days in a pay dispute.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 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
Last December, Amazon employees at seven warehouses joined the Teamsters to go on strike in part because the company refused to recognize the union’s representation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 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
