Sentence examples for backed strike from inspiring English sources

Approximately 98% of its members backed strike action in a ballot in November.

In a recent ballot, 98% of BMA junior doctors who voted backed strike action in protest at the threatened new contract.

The BMA was legally obliged to act on its mandate for strike by 13 January or face a re-ballot of its 38,000 junior doctor members, 98% of whom backed strike action in November.

However, the union is unsure what it can do next as there is doubt over whether the ballot result it obtained in November, when 98% of juniors backed strike action, still constitutes a legal basis for further action.

More than 80% of those who voted in a ballot by the Communication Workers Union this week backed strike action, but only 50.3% of the union's 3,500 members who work for the Post Office took part.

The BMA was legally obliged to act on its mandate for strike by 13 January or face reballoting its 38,000 junior doctor members, 98% of whom backed strike action in November.

A new film called Pride tells the story of how the gay community backed striking miners in the 1980s.

Workers in England who are members of Unison voted to back strike action.

On September 14th delegates voted to back strikes to prevent public-sector job cuts.

On Wednesday morning the former Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw added his voice to those on the Labour benches backing strikes.

Overall, 27,741 doctors backed a strike, with only 564 against.