Sentence examples for before the strike started from inspiring English sources

Spirit pilots had been negotiating for more than three years before the strike started.

Many workers in Guangdong province already earn considerably more than the minimum wage because of an acute labor shortage even before the strike started.

The contract that the workers ultimately approved, 56 to 48, was not much different from one that workers overwhelmingly rejected just before the strike started.

Mr Rehman, who was suspected of being a strike leader because he and others missed their work bus on the day before the strike started, said he was locked in darkness in Dubai police headquarters for two days before being transferred to Dubai central prison.

The next day the strike started.

Like the suspected drug dealer before him, he had just "beaten the strike" start date and will have a solicitor.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that even before the air strikes started, 105 items on the essential drug list were nearly depleted during the conflict.

He said: ""The service attended a serious road traffic collision a short while before the strike action started and I would like to commend our staff for continuing to deal with the incident into the strike period in such a professional manner.

American officials estimated that it was making $2m a day from oil before air strikes started (locals reckon it was more) but in December an official said the strikes, some of which have been against oil facilities in Syria, meant the group's oil revenues had "significantly" dropped.

While the industrial dispute has dragged Southern's performance down further, the franchise had been plagued by problems before strikes started in May.

In the final few weeks before the strike and start of production, Abrams and Lindelof polished the script for a final time.