on strike

He said he had to go on strike, asking "What is next? "

The company's threat to sack anyone who went on strike was just (a) bluff. 6. You two are a perfect match.

The ship's firemen went on strike and there was no one to fire.

And Mr Wang suddenly went silent, as if he had gone on strike to protest against the long hours he had to sing.

Under the strain of falling salaries and punished for a crisis they did not cause, local workers demanded a salary rise, and went on strike.

Footballers who do not like the money can either leave the game or go on strike, as they did in March.

The other problem had been his response to a decision by the Kandahar-based vaccination teams to go on strike.

Two days after he announced a date for election, the miners voted by an overwhelming majority of eighty-one per cent to come out on strike.

Nolan and many of his colleagues had never been on strike, but they made beds out of cardboard on the chilly shopfloor and dug in.

The company's threat to sack anyone who went on strike was just (a) bluff.

Boeing space and defence workers are on strike in the U. S. , fighting against the company's latest concessionary offer.

That won't matter if panicked investors go on strike and stop buying financial securities of any kind in Europe.

Our steel workers as you know, are now on strike.

Trade unions are not allowed to go on strike for disputes relating to trade union registration or illegal sackings .

Meanwhile, public-sector unions promised to bring hundreds of thousands of workers out on strike in co-ordinated protests against cuts.

This evening local time, the taxies and buses were staring to go on strike and workers are rushing home early to avoid getting caught out.

Workers of the coalmine decided to go on strike for better working conditions.

I was standing there surprised when a policeman told me that the line was closed because tube station workers were on strike.

Within a few days, sixty thousand railway workers were on strike. Twenty railroads were closed down.

The government says the unions walked out; the unions that went on strike said the government wasn't genuinely negotiating.

Thanks to kindhearted bus drivers that day, they did not go on strike.

If the company refused to improve its pay offer. We shall go on strike.

MAX TEGMARK: If quantum mechanics suddenly went on strike, every single machine that we have in the U. S. , almost, would stop functioning.

He also boasted about the fact that none of his Greek workers had ever been on strike.

The government has been unable to pay salaries for months at a time and teachers recently threatened to go on strike.

Thousands of Italian workers in several major cities went on strike Friday, demanding lower taxes and an end to lay-offs, Xinhua reported.

Not until all the demands had been turned down did the workers decide to go on strike.

The workers have come out on strike in support of their pay claim.

Angry workers on strike got out of hand and they began to throw things at the police.

Her memory went blank, and the part of her brain that normally handled organizational skills went on strike.

If that seems an unremarkable fact, it was enough to send several hundred thousand government employees on strike a month ago.

Although his ministers said that the new policy would not harm officers' benefit packages, they still went on strike in response.

As the workers went on strike, the company was obliged to suspend its operations.

The coal miners decided to go on strike for better working condition.

Thousands of postal workers will go on strike this Friday, threatening widespread disruption to mail services.

Your language draws attention to itself, flaunts its material being, as statements like 'Don't you know the drivers are on strike? ' do not.

Honda said it did not know how many of the factory's 492 workers had gone on strike, or what their specific demands were.

Workers keep themselves up to date on strike action via mobile phones and QQ , an instant messaging tool .

Workers in London went on strike for three days last week.

The workers go on strike to ask for higher pay.

The workers on strike have at their back the deep sympathy and firm support of the general public.

Busmen have decided to go on strike next week. The strike is due to begin on Tuesday. No one knows how long it will last.

Meanwhile, laborunions across the country went on strike, with tens of thousands of workersstaying away from their jobs on Wednesday.

The fact that local workers go on strike every other month has a lot to do with factories closing.

Europe's toiling masses sometimes go on strike, leaving streets unswept and commuters stranded. Chinese expats find this shocking.

We went on strike in support of our demands but nothing came of it.

The union's answer to this massive challenge smacks of industrial suicide: they are threatening to go on strike.

Hundreds of taxi drivers went on strike in central China today - the latest in three weeks of protests amid anxiety over the economy.

The workers decided to go on strike for more pays.

The dockers have come out on strike.

The workers have been out on strike for four weeks.

Are we likely to gain anything by going out (on strike)?

One of the workers revealed to the press that they were going on strike.

Javier Mascherano has denied going on strike at Liverpool as he prepares to seal his move to Barcelona.

The oil workers were at war with the Cossacks, the parliament was impotent, and a million workers were on strike.

The ever-present threat of unemployment makes workers less willing to go on strike.

The ship builders went out on strike for higher pay.

Rather than go on strike, workmen should submit to arbitration, provided their masters are willing to settle disputes peaceably .

Greek public-sector workers went on strike for a day to protest against the government's planned austerity measures.

Tens of thousands of public sector workers in Romania have gone on strike to protest against government austerity measures.

The coalminers have been out on strike for several weeks now.

Greek lorry drivers went on strike in protest, but the government did not budge.

The meeting pass or carry or adopt a resolution to go on strike.

That raise came as workers at other factories, including staff at a Honda Motor Co. parts plant, went on strike for higher pay.

In April, truck drivers in Shanghai also went on strike over rising fuel costs, disrupting operations at the city's ports.

The dockers are coming out on strike for higher wages.

The UAW most recently went on strike against American Axel for 80-days, essentially bringing several General Motors plants to a halt.

Miners were called out on strike by union leaders.

Yet among train drivers, it remains extremely high: at mid-week, 90% of those who drive the Paris suburban RER trains were still on strike.

Not until all attempts at negotiation had failed did the workers decide to go on strike.

Europe's toiling masses sometimes go on strike, leaving streets unswept and commuters stranded.

In early July of that year, 400, 000 rail shop laborers from a conglomeration of unions went on strike.

Already, taxi drivers have gone on strike in Paris and elsewhere as a preemptive move against deregulation. After the elections, Mr.

And so, three months later, just before she returned to the United States, nurses in Accra go on strike.

Workers went out on strike all across the nation.

Members of the Writers Guild of America, who have been on strike for five weeks, are expected to picket there on Thursday.

Busmen have decided to go on strike next week .

With their own labor the only available bargaining chip, workers frequently went on strike.

Eg. Busmen have decided to go on strike next week.

Tens of thousands of teachers in Kenya are on strike to demand higher pay, with many primary schools affected.

Half the workforce are now(out) on strike.

The blacks went on strike to call for theirrights.

No rubbish has been collected since the dustmen went on strike three weeks ago.

It wasn't clear what kind of concession worker-trainees, who went on strike along with regular full-time workers, received.

No rubbish has been collected since the dust men went on strike three weeks ago.

So the asshole went on strike, blocked itself up and refused to work.

At present, when I am on strike, the university doesn't respect my right to strike, to say no to these disgracing employment conditions.

The workers are demanding a raise and threatening to go on strike.

The ship-builders went on strike for higher pay.

For the past two weeks, teachers at the main state university have been on strike for higher wages.

Following the murder of the union leader, all the workers went on strike.

He has probably never been on strike in his life.

In May of 1917, women factory workers took action once again by going on strike in protest of the war.

They plan to go on strike for better working conditions.

But labour union has put forward to appeal to strike ban, very possible meeting goes on strike again before predicting christmas.

Transport workers are on strike in Toronto over a pay claim and the strike looks set to spread to other states.

A day before in Shenzhen, 400 workers went on strike in a pay dispute at an underwear factory.

Meanwhile, across the Channel, the French were loudly on strike.

Yesterday, the high flame hood hob decides to go on strike.

All the blue-collar workers who worked on the construction site went on strike.

Teachers have gone on strike on five days of a school year that has barely begun.

Earlier this year, cabbies in Zhengzhou briefly went on strike to protest against a new overtime rule.

Some high school students later went on strike to protest the harsh conditions, the report said.

If your new agreement falls through, the workers in your company will go on strike.

Taxi drivers in southern China have gone on strike to protest high operating costs and competition from unlicensed cabs.

Diarra is adamant he will do whatever it takes to secure a transfer to Madrid , and may even go on strike to push the move through .

Already, the government has started cracking down on strike-related Web sites and deleted many of the blog posts about the strikes.

In Spain workers on the Madrid Metro caused disruption when they went on strike over government budget cuts.

And Wednesday, the tobacconists were (went) on strike against new anti-smoking law.

Indeed, the idea of going on strike for political reasons is unthinkable among all public-sector workers in Germany.

The workers on strike came up against their employer's unwillingness to pay high wages.

The workers have been on strike for two days for higher salary and better living conditions.

Two days later, Tsinghua, Nankai, and Peiyang universities went on strike.

The workers dispersed about an hour after the police left and remained on strike.

Over a thousand factory employees went on strike.

The tanners were on strike, expressing their disagreement with the demand of working overtime.

Factory workers at Guangdong-based Honda plants have gone on strike to demand higher wages several times this year.

The workers went on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions.

Honda confirmed yesterday that workers at a factory that supplies the Japanese carmaker had gone on strike.

Writers voted in Los Angeles and New York to return to work after one hundred days on strike.

Bus drivers are now being on strike. They are demanding higher wages, shorter working hours and better working conditions .

Really, University Profs on strike. "Time heals these things" Nice. Way to show leadership. You're already overpaid for what you do.

If the workers get bored, they will go on strike and your wonder will be in danger!

On Wednesday, the tobacconists went on strike against a new antismoking law.

e. g. They went on strike Monday in demand of a 30 percent wage increase.

But with bond investors increasingly on strike, there are doubts about the efficacy of those complex leveraging plans.

It was reported that half a million workers were on strike in their country.

The workers knew that going on strike was on pain of losing their jobs.

Eg. Teachers revealed to the press that they were going on strike.

They can't belong to a Trade Union or go on strike, but they can't be sacked either and pay keeps up with inflation.

The bus drivers went on strike because the bus company would not raise their pay.

"People who go on strike should be fired. If you want to strike, then fine, we don't want you. Go! "

Palestinians went on strike in protest over Israel's plans to demolish 88 Arab homes in disputed East Jerusalem.

For those on strike, time is running out to stop the pension-reform bill going through.

The workers went on strike for better pay and better working conditions.

All workers of our company are going on strike for better pay.

On Wednesday, the tobacconists went on strike against a new anti-smoking law.

'We have been on strike for three days now and we don't think they can withstand much more, ' added the woman, known as Ana MG.

The electricity workers have been on strike for several weeks now.

It is reported that some workers on strike conflicted with the police.

The 1, 700 workers who went on strike at the Honda Lock auto parts factory here are mostly poor migrants with middle-school educations.

In July 2008 workers went on strike for eight days at the same mine over wages and working conditions.

Many workers went on strike in Conakry, Guinea's capital, after the massacre.

Eg. The office workers are on strike for higher pay.

The encouraging response from the mayor refreshed millions of workers on strike.

They went on strike in demand of a 40 percent wage increase.

The bus drivers went on strike because their pay rise could not match inflation rate.

In addition, the bill also prohibits public sector employees went on strike, the participants will be punished.

A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

Doctors at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York have gone on strike.

My laptop has been on strike for days, buzzing loudly the minute I get it to work.

But people will tend to quit rather than go on strike.

The peasants across the country are on strike.

The workers went on strike for shorter working hours.

the workers went on strike for working shorter hours.

"Can a place where workers go on strike every day grow economically? Certainly not, " he said.

Otherwise they'll go out on strike.

Life before death. Give up art. Go on strike.

They went on strike and close up all. the shops.

It may take more than one swing to compose an efficient hit, so don't give up on strike #1.

The dustmen went on strike for higher pay three weeks ago.

Weekly we read unions who went on strike for higher wages, only to drive their emplore our of business.

Mr Hu encouraged the workers to go on strike in order to fish in troubled waters .

Meaning: "worker on strike" vs. "strike oil in California"

the workers on strike are demanding better pay from the management.

Nearly half the channel's employees went on strike because of Mr Roh's detention, though the dispute was settled this week.

The miners go on strike to higher offer.

I was so eager and nervous that I forgot the university workforce was on strike and the museum was closed.

The Workers are on strike against bad working conditions.

You go on strike because you want three cows. ) to the Republican Party (You have two cows.

This is partly because many institutional investors have quietly gone on strike, choosing to sit on their cash rather than trade.

The workers of the railway station were on strike.

Some babies will nurse while asleep even while "on strike. "

In April 1968 Dr. King went to Memphis. Tennessee to help the sanitation workers who were on strike.

Father(reading): MORE POCKET-MONEY-OR WE WILL GO ON STRIKE!

He is one of survivers among few workers on strike.

Fan Chung-yen and so on strike after two years to the political, from please go out, know Yangzhou, known Dingzhou change, and the state.

The workers are going on strike tomorrow.

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

Can students go on strike?

The miners went on strike for higher pay.

A sign -- "On strike" -- hung on a closed gate.

But the factory is closed now. The workers are all on strike.

Why are the workers on strike? What's the story here?

Bus drivers went on strike last week.

About three million workers were on strike.

The baggage handlers are on strike FOR higher pay .

Those workers make good money. Why are they on strike?

"We talked to management before but got no reply. That's why we are on strike. "

It is not clear yet when the teachers on strike will return to their classrooms.

They have been on strike for several weeks.

i am the miner of the biggest copper of Chile. thay took me imprisonment for i am on strike.

And it's not just students who are angry. In Greece, journalists went on strike for 24 hours, over recent job cuts.

They have been on strike for three weeks.

The workers went on strike.

The workers out of work are on strike.

The students went on strike, but not the teachers.

This weekend the players [planned to] go on strike because they are not paid.

The government is playing a waiting game with the unions that are on strike.

When the Syndicat du Livre goes on strike, Le Monde puts the full print version online.

Because the post office was on strike, I haven't received your package yet.

On Wednesday, the tobacconists went to on strike against the a new anti-smoking law.

One driver said more than half of the 10, 607 licensed taxis were on strike.

The past year saw workers go on strike in some cities in China for higher salaries and shorter working hours with the help of trade unions.

The workers are all going on strike.

Eg. There are no trains because the train drivers are on strike.

take the place of work of someone on strike.

The workers are on strike for better pay.

The workers are on strike for higher pay.

The workers are on strike for more money.

Must we go on strike?

Were the workers on strike?

The taxi drivers are on strike again.

The union workers went on strike this morning.

In the south others have gone on strike.

It is the first time they have gone on strike in protest at a development within their own company.

I asked him whether he would delivery my application through Canada Post, which was on strike.

I had visions of us going on strike.

The workmen are on strike.

Miners from Chile's state-owned company, Codelco, have gone on strike for the first time in nearly 20 years.

The whole workforce is on strike.

In addition, the other factors such as going on strike, horrible action, war etc. are reflected in the dissertation.

The questions had to be neutral, not leading: why are you on strike?

The following year, as many as 750, 000 workers were on strike, and the unemployment rate reached 20 percent.

The whole plant is on strike.

I don't know if you have seen in Spain but the top players go on strike because they are not paid.

How long have they been on strike?

They' re boycotting the shop because the people who work there are on strike to boycott a meeting.

are boycotting the shop because the people who work there are on strike to boycott a meeting.

How many Polacks does it take to change a light bulb? A: Just one, but you need 6000 Russian troops in case he goes on strike!

Can a place where workers go on strike every day grow economically?

They're boycotting the shop because the people there are on strike.

I asked Darmanger why they had gone on strike.

They are boycotting that shop, because the people there are on strike.

trial study of gas drainage by roof bore - holes on strike under different geological conditions

Workers on strike blocking the entrance gate of Hi-P International factory yell slogans during a protest in Shanghai

Research on Strike of Alignment Scheme for Tianjin-Qinhuangdao Passenger Dedicated Line

Incite other employees to go on strike

World Cup Construction Workers Go on Strike

Palestinians on Strike over Israeli Plan to Demolish Homes

the arab residents went on strike and closed up all shops

Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor

French Diplomats on Strike Over Budget Cuts

Lecturers go on strike, and the government has a drastic response

Zhengzhou's taxis have gone on strike

The Chinese railway worker of Beijing goes on strike