Examples of 'were on strike' in a sentence
Meaning of "were on strike"
were on strike: Describes a situation in which workers collectively refuse to work, typically to protest against working conditions, pay, or other grievances
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It will be an unseemly manner when everybody were on strike.
Postal workers were on strike yesterday.
At the same time half of all teachers were on strike.
The unions were on strike and a cry for revolution exploded.
You would think informers were on strike.
We were on strike.
The teachers say they were on strike.
They were on strike.
Not so long ago it was the nurses who were on strike.
My legs were on strike.
Some public agents in charge of asylum procedures were on strike.
The trains were on strike.
But research institute heads estimated thousands were on strike.
Buses were on strike.
I was shocked that our teachers were on strike.
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They were on strike because they had not been paid for three months.
And the phones were on strike.
Prison authorities immediately resorted to punitive measures to torment those prisoners who were on strike.
All the buses were on strike.
He was in the city to support black sanitary workers who were on strike.
Shell workers were on strike.
The reporter inquired if any of the civil service employees were on strike.
I thought you were on strike.
For more than two months the staff of the Spanish Judiciary were on strike.
They were at home because they were on strike over pay for their tutors.
You were pissing in your Pampers when we were on strike.
The Metro drivers were on strike when we arrived.
The overwhelming majority of NUM members were on strike.
That the French were on strike again.
All the commercial airlines in that part of Africa were on strike.
Some ten million workers were on strike last Thursday.
Once I found my way home when the streetcar drivers were on strike.
All were on strike so I stopped too and I did not even know why.
Over a million workers were on strike.
We were on strike, and we were on strike for five weeks.
Actors and workers were on strike.
The miners were on strike for a year, no wages for a year.
The national presses were on strike.
Garbage collectors too, were on strike to protest impairing working conditions.
The week we were there, the binmen were on strike.
What if they were on strike as well though?
Within a week, twenty thousand workers were on strike.
Staff were on strike last week, asking for an eight per cent pay rise.
I thought they were on strike.
The defense contract did not mean shit to them for the 18 months we were on strike.
Middle and secondary school teachers were on strike for a month and a half.
Trouble was, the buses were not running because the drivers were on strike.
Were on strike at one time or another. The war had rejuvenated american capitalism.
The employees of Air France were on strike last summer.
After about three weeks, thirty Cegeps and a handful of university faculties were on strike.
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The strike or lockout must immediately be terminated
