Sentence examples for a violent strike from inspiring English sources

Inflation is shooting up, and jail guards recently held a violent strike.

In 1990 a violent strike by South African railway workers inspired Ngema to write the musical Township Fever.

Among these was the London-based mining company Lonmin, whose workers staged a violent strike in 2012 – police opened fire and killed 34 in a single day.

[1] Officially Haywood was in charge of handling the dues of 27,000 unruly brawlers and adventurers; unofficially he was the human giant in charge of a violent strike campaign.

Many Tampa residents, including Mr. Huse, say that devil crabs became a token of the city's identity during a violent strike that began in the spring of 1920 and concluded 10 months later in an uneasy truce between the tabaqueros and the owners of the factories.

Workers who raised beefs with management were ordered fired, and a violent strike soon erupted and spread, with Debs and his American Railway Union swooping in to lead the fight.

A long, violent strike ensued.

The Jeffrey mine's hold on Quebec and Canadian politics started with an unusually violent strike against Johns Manville in 1949.

"Bali?" exclaims the thunderstruck dad (Gary Lewis), a widower and passionate union man who has his hands full with an impending, potentially violent strike in the coal fields.

They had heard that the rock-drill operators at the Impala platinum mine, 30 miles away near the town of Rustenburg, had emerged from a long and sometimes violent strike with new pay rates, while they remained on 4,000-5,000 rand a month (£215-270), and they were angry.

The Republicans pointed to a lengthy, ongoing, and sometimes violent strike which the UAW was conducting against the Kohler plumbing fixtures company in Wisconsin.