Sentence examples for largest strikes from inspiring English sources
So on June 1st, a few weeks before the ruling African National Congress party is due to host a policy conference, public-sector workers launched one of the largest strikes in the country's recent history.They want a 12% salary increase.
Deregulation of water testing and cuts to environmental programs were cited as causes of a deadly E. coli outbreak in the town of Walkerton, and clashes with labour unions led to some of the largest strikes in Canadian history.
But the kid had been "taking kung-fu," said the union's director, and the result was one of the largest strikes ever by white-collar workers against a private company.
[A1.] Labor Faces a Test in Boeing Strike The strike against Boeing by the union that represents engineers and technical workers has mushroomed into one of the largest strikes by white-collar workers against a private company in years.
Now nearing its fifth week, the increasingly bitter protest here by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace has mushroomed into one of the largest strikes by white-collar workers against a private company in years.
Last May, Iranian Kurds staged one of their largest strikes in recent years, closing shops and bazaars in nearly all Sunni Kurdish cities and towns in western Iran to protest the executions of five people, including four Kurdish activists, according to opposition Web sites and witnesses.
That walkout was the largest strike in decades and affected almost every American business.
Their walkout, America's largest strike in three decades, has caused severe disruptions, forcing some businesses that rely on UPS deliveries to lay off workers.
Beginning with the evening shift on Monday, the 45,000 striking workers will return to their jobs, posts that they left on Aug. 7 in the nation's largest strike since 2007, when workers at General Motors held a two-day strike.
In the nation's largest strike in four years, Verizon Communications and its unions are deeply divided over the company's assertions that its traditional landline business is performing so badly that it needs large-scale concessions.
If the action goes ahead the company will also run a limited service along its popular East Coast line – disrupting thousands of passengers in the largest strike action on the UK's rail service in twenty years.
