Sentence examples for supported strike from inspiring English sources

Pollock also said that the overwhelming majority of staff supported strike action.

Kevin Courtney, the NUT's acting general secretary, said: "This has been a very well supported strike, both by NUT members and the general public.

Because people were asked more than two years ago whether they supported strike action the government questioned whether we had the mandate to do it.

Another South African study also found that 32.5% of study participants supported strike action by nurses as a constitutional and legal right (29).

It has also been rocked by a dispute over bin collections in Brighton, which has set the Green-led council against Lucas, who supported striking workers.

Laurence Laigo, the CFDT's national secretary, said her union supported strikes, but only to push the government into "a real, transparent debate for our people".

In the south, during the last decade of Ben Ali's rule, some union organizers supported strikes and protests by phosphate miners and disgruntled farmworkers.

In the East Midlands around 80% of council staff supported strikes and there was widespread disruption in schools and municipal buildings.

As the New York Times and New Yorker have reported, the Department's leadership never organized or supported strike-force teams of bank regulators, F.B.I. agents, and federal prosecutors for each of the potential primary defendants and ignored past lessons about how to crack financial fraud.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have all engaged in or supported strikes in Syria.

There are 53,000 junior doctors in England who are affected, and more than 50,000 signatures on a petition calling for the British Medical Association BMAA) to support strike action.