sympathy strike
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This week, Danish labor unions announced their plans to launch a sympathy strike against Tesla if the electric vehicle company doesn’t sign a collective bargaining agreement with its 125 striking Swedish mechanics.
From Washington Times • Dec. 5, 2023
The workers with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 were expected to be joined by 24,000 other union members in a sympathy strike.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2018
According to CBS News, the striking workers from around 10 campuses are expected to number roughly 50,000, bolstered by a sympathy strike from professional and technical employees of the university system.
From Slate • May 7, 2018
Some of the public hospital system's estimated 3,400 pharmacists, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists and lab scientists also walked out on Tuesday in a one-day sympathy strike at the five medical centers.
From Reuters • May 21, 2013
He said it wasn't much of a sympathy strike, because nobody had any sympathy for him.
From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)
