Sentence examples for for general strike from inspiring English sources

"We call for general strike around the country and around the world," said Louise Michel, who has been involved in Occupy Oakland from the first day.

· Industrial action: Union paves way for general strike The country's biggest union has raised the threat of a general public services strike against the government unless ministers and other local employers continue to offer big pay rises to council and hospital staff.

* Organized labor rejects call for general strike.

Some protesters have called for general strike to disrupt the elections if they proceed, argued that the present conditions delegitimize the vote.

A text message broadcast late Monday from an Occupy Wall Street address said: "All civilians stand by for GENERAL STRIKE at 08 00.

Disillusioned supporters have ignored several calls for general strikes intended to demonstrate public outrage with the government.

In protest the BNP regularly resorts to calls for general strikes (known as hartals), with the next due on May 8th and 9th.

François Chérèque, secretary general of the Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens, has stressed that he has not called for general strikes, leaving it instead to workers to vote day-to-day at the union chapter level.

François Chérèque, secretary general of the Confédération Française Democratique du Travail, has stressed that he has not called for general strikes, leaving it instead to workers to vote day-to-day at the union chapter level.

As the Hungarian resistance fought Soviet tanks using Molotov cocktails in the narrow streets of Budapest, revolutionary councils arose nationwide, assumed local governmental authority, and called for general strikes.

Pro-PAD union bosses' calls for a general strike were generally ignored.