Sentence examples for servants on strike from inspiring English sources

With unemployment running at 94percentnt and many public servants on strike for a living wage, Zimbabwe needs a massive injection of foreign aid.

Civil servants are on strike for higher pay.

Unions claimed that three-quarters of Spain's public servants went on strike on June 8th.

If only this had been relayed to the civil servants now on strike.

In Italy, civil servants went on strike and national transportation workers — although not airlines — stopped work for four hours.

Adding to the country's woes, Greek civil servants went on strike to protest the austerity measures and thousands of demonstrators gathered in Athens to express their dissatisfaction.

The spokesperson for the Cabinet Office said there is a "strong indication" that only 72,000 civil servants are on strike, but official figures will not be confirmed until later on Wednesday.

"We can now confirm that far fewer civil servants are on strike than in November – with around 100,000 taking part – down from 146,000 last year," said Francis Maude, the cabinet secretary.

He was on a picket line, aged 14, when his mother, also a civil servant, went on strike in 1981.

When civil servants were throwing money out the window to the students, why not call on those civil servants to go on strike?

You can see why so many civil servants see going on strike as our only option," she said.