sit-down strike
Example Sentences
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When the elevator breaks down yet again and Isaac can’t get to an exam on the upper floor, the whole school stages a sit-down strike in his support.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023
The Flint sit-down strike, McCartin concluded, "was certainly the single most pivotal strike of the era."
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021
Kildee’s congressional district includes the city of Flint, where a sit-down strike by General Motors workers in 1936-1937 brought about one of the biggest victories for labor unions in America’s history.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2021
The narrative really took on a life of its own when a New Yorker article in 1976 referred to "a sort of sit-down strike one day about half-way through the mission".
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2021
As for Life magazine and its boosterish enthusiasms, Mr. Brinkley shows how the “Life Goes to a Party” feature covered a women’s sit-down strike at Woolworths as the “newest type of camping excursion.”
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2010
