go on strike

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

It is the issue that prompted players to go on strike in 1994, leading to the cancellation of the World Series.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

"Will MLAs have to wait a year and threaten to go on strike to get the money or will it slide into their pay packet very quickly?"

From BBC • Feb. 20, 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