Sentence examples for organized a strike from inspiring English sources

When co-workers groused about wages, she organized a strike — and won.

Perón's adherents in the unions organized a strike that found enthusiastic support among the people.

They eventually organized a strike, and at a protest rally some of them threw rocks, prompting the local militia to open fire, killing four.

Ver.di this year organized a strike by workers at Zara, the clothing retailer, and has threatened work stoppages at Globus, a discount chain, Mr. Jöris said.

In Iowa, the Farmers Holiday Associationn organized a strike in which farmers refused to bring food to market for 30 days.

In 2013 inmates organized a strike in long term solitary in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay Prison.

The teacher sickout proceeded despite a Michigan law that precludes government employees from organizing a strike.

A transformative event was his helping to organize a strike of asbestos mine workers in Quebec's Eastern Townships in 1949.

He helped to organize a strike and a march, making the TV news and forcing a wage increase.

He did better in his next job, in a window-blind factory: there, he was able to organize a strike.

Mr. Herrera Campíns took to politics as a law student in the 1950s, organizing a strike against the dictatorship of Gen. Marcos Pérez Jiménez.