Sentence examples for in favour of the strike from inspiring English sources

Who is in favour of the strike?

I am in favour of the strike – we have to view this as short-term pain for long-term gain - for our patients as well as us.

First, more than 50% of a union's members must vote in order for the ballot to be valid, and second, at least 40% of those entitled to vote must be in favour of the strike.

The union's members voted nine-to-one in favour of the strikes at the Crown sites, which make up just 3% of the Post Office's portfolio but process 20% of all transactions.

Justice minister Jeremy Wright has described the strike as "in favour of the status quo and high reoffending rates".

In England, those in favour of the air strikes, 54 per cent, back the line that an escalation of military action is necessary to prevent Isis terrorists becoming stronger in the Middle East and beyond.

The CWU is confident that its 130,000 membership will vote in favour of the first national strike in 11 years, pointing to independent polls which indicate that 65percentnt will say yes to action.

But after initially ruling in favour of the defendant's motion to strike Woods's case on 2 February, the judge has now allowed the suit to proceed in a move described by the Hollywood Reporter as a "stunning reversal".

Aberystwyth 2-3 Bala Town (Fri): Dave Morley settled this encounter in favour of the visitors with a late strike.

The announcement comes following a International Rescue Committee call for Britain to house more refugees after MPs voted in favour of the UK carrying out air strikes in Syria.

Within two years Alain Juppé's reformist government was swept away, a victim of street protests and strikes in favour of the status quo.