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
Remaining health workers sometimes juggle multiple jobs and often go on strike to demand higher salaries, and improved conditions.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 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
Louvre staff said they intend to go on strike Dec. 15 because of their concerns about perceived understaffing and security flaws.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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
