Sentence examples for supported striking from inspiring English sources

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.

The list is completed by Pride, about gay and lesbian activists who supported striking miners in the 1980s, and '71, the debut feature film by French director Yann Demange, with Jack O'Connell as a teenage soldier in Northern Ireland.

Scalia supported striking down attempts by public universities to use race as a factor in admissions and his replacement and other new Justices could be the deciding votes in related cases.

More than 15,000 transgender people secretly serve in the US military, according to an estimate from the Palm Centre, a group that supports striking the ban.

At least 75percentt of the teachers polled at 150 schools reportedly support striking should the city and union not agree on a contract.

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

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.

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.