Sentence examples for provoke a strike from inspiring English sources

Such erratic motion by baitfish can provoke a strike.

If the BBC wants to provoke a strike over such small numbers it would be shameful.

He said it appeared to him as if transit leaders were actually "trying to provoke a strike".

"If I were management and I wanted to provoke a strike, I would make the kind of proposals they're making," Mr. Gordon said.

Newfoundland and Labrador's finance minister announced plans to trim his province's civil service by 14%, or 4,000 jobs, helping to provoke a strike that crippled public services for almost a month.

Several officials said management accepted terms more generous than it intended because shortly before midnight it appeared that a lower offer would provoke a strike by the union of doormen, janitors, superintendents, elevator operators and handymen.

has provoked a strike through its greed," Mr. Fire said.

Some thought Mr. Grebey had pushed too hard and provoked a strike that could have been avoided.

The last time the BBC governors intervened in a programme before transmission, in the Real Lives case (about the IRA), they provoked a strike.

The UAW boss, Ron Gettelfinger, has ruled out any further concessions before the next bargaining round in 2007.Mr Wagoner deserves credit for his deft paring of costs and his dogged attempts to win concessions from the unions without provoking a strike.

The NUJ general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, accused the BBC of "provoking" a strike over a handful of job losses, but the corporation said there were 100 posts for which compulsory redundancy was "regrettably unavoidable".