Sentence examples for strike waves from inspiring English sources

That year saw one of the greatest strike waves in American history, and the United Automobile Workers elected the indomitable Walter P. Reuther its president.

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Although many were prohibited from collective bargaining or striking, these workers sparked a massive public-sector strike wave of teachers and nurses, clerical, social service and sanitation workers.

Though scoffed at by some as only economic, the strike wave was political in essence.

They will be building off last year's momentum from the "red state" teacher strike wave, as well as recent private-sector strike wins like that at Marriott hotels.

With the new school year underway, the strike wave seems to be spreading to "blue" states, with teachers walking out or preparing to in California and Washington.

But, he added, in the wake of the recent strike wave, "workers are recognizing they have leverage" when they withdraw their labor.

As a journalist covering the strike wave in 2007, I frequently heard from strikers: "We were encouraged to move after we heard of Mahalla".

The decisions indicate the stand of the industrial unions against their employers in the current strike wave, and appear to broaden the Federal government's power to extend the interpretation of what constitutes interstate powers.

Even though much of labor remains in a defensive crouch, the unions and workers joining the recent strike wave took to the streets with picket signs because they were fed up.

The AP, as well as other news organizations covered the Great Strike Wave of 1945-1946, a series of massive post-war labor strikes spanning numerous industries and public utilities.