Sentence examples for sympathy strike from inspiring English sources
noun
Industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.
The earliest industries were cotton mills (1794), and in 1828 Paterson mechanics joined mill workers in the first recorded sympathy strike in the United States.
That triggered a one-day (illegal) sympathy strike by 1,000 BA ground staff, again causing chaos for passengers, some 70,000 of whom were stranded.
The company calls in the army; there is a massacre; the prostitutes stage a sympathy strike, hiding hunted oil workers in their closets.
While there was a mass sympathy strike, the campaign garnered support throughout communities becoming a movement as the ramifications of closure sunk in.
The world's No. 1 platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, is facing the threat of a sympathy strike next week by at least half of its 40,000 employees.
After Interstate Bakeries declined to abide by arbitration rulings in the labor fight, Teamsters stopped work at the company's plant in Biddeford, Me., last week, and a sympathy strike has spread south and west.
The decision came after workers at other banks failed to stage sympathy strikes.
Similar sympathy strikes are under way in Ottawa, London, Berlin, Stockholm and The Hague.
Sympathy strikes by union locals occurred in states and territories from Ohio to California, and violence and rioting of disputed origin and intensity broke out, centring in Chicago.
He was Larkin's chief assistant in organizing the Irish Transport and General Workers Unionn (ITGWU), which conducted sympathy strikes in support of other labour disputes.
A week later 647 of them were fired, prompting sympathy strikes by around 3,000 workers at a score of other sites.
