Sentence examples for brief strikes from inspiring English sources

In 2007, the U.A.W. called brief strikes at Chrysler and G.M. before reaching agreements.

Workers staged various actions that included brief strikes and the refusal to work overtime.

More than 150 union members among the factory's 1,800 workers were fired after brief strikes over higher wages.

The goal was to use brief strikes to force factories to reduce the workweek to 35 hours from 38, in line with factories in western Germany.

The navy's near collapse was characterized by a series of "incidents" in the late winter of 1949 when sailors in the deployed destroyers Athabaskan and Crescent and the carrier Magnificent staged brief strikes.

IG Metall's campaign in eastern Germany was supposed to force manufacturers, through brief strikes, to shorten the workweek to 35 hours from 38, in line with factories in western Germany.

The same plant was the subject of a brief strike over pay in March.

He organized a brief strike in 1970 and was the named plaintiff in the important antitrust litigation brought by the union against the league in 1972.

The same Taiyuan factory was the site of a brief strike during a pay dispute last March, Hong Kong media reported then.

The same Taiyuan factory was the site of a brief strike during a pay dispute last March, the Hong Kong news media reported then.

In fact, he has argued the opposite — that a brief strike will do the trick of teaching the Syrians a lesson.