Sentence examples for solidarity strike from inspiring English sources

As thousands of protesters descended on John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Saturday to protest Friday's executive order blocking citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, the AFL-CIO affiliated, 19,000-member Taxi Workers Alliance called for a solidarity strike.

Israel's Hisadrut trade union has called on other sectors outside pharmaceuticals including ports, banks and ministries to hold a "solidarity strike" in protest.

Over the weekend, Uber dropped its "surge" prices during a Muslim solidarity strike led by the NYC Taxi Worker's Alliance, which called for a one-hour, complete stop of pickups from JFK airport while two Iraqis were being detained inside.

The events had been coming for a long time, but anger over the university's inadequate treatment of its black student body finally reached the tipping point when a graduate student's hunger strike was joined by a solidarity strike by black members of the university's football team.

They included Anna Walentynowicz, 80, the former dock worker whose firing in 1980 set off the Solidarity strike that ultimately overthrew Polish Communism, as well as relatives of victims of the massacre that they were on their way to commemorate.

From solidarity strikes to slowdowns and sit-ins, workplace revolt is a key strategy in opposing the new administration.

From the Warsaw uprisings to the solidarity strikes, Wajda's best work was invariably rooted in social and political issues.

As George Osborne's recent manoeuvres prove, this is exactly how the Conservatives want to reshape politics, pulling the word "worker" away from its residual associations with solidarity, strikes, and all that stuff, and recasting it as the badge you wear when you earn a living, and you resent subsidising anyone who doesn't.

The famous Gate 2 - centre of the solidarity strikes - is now a tourist attraction with a souvenir shop beside it.

So we thought carefully about how to participate in A Day Without a Woman, the day designed by the Women's March organizers to unite women in solidarity to strike against paid and unpaid labor, patronize women- or minority-owned businesses only, or avoid spending money at all.

Perhaps Davis did not finally match the thunderbolt of high art, broad acceptance and black solidarity that struck the Riviera Club back in 1944.