"strike" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The open conflict heightened concern about possible violence on Tuesday, when a strike protesting independence is supposed to take place.
- In addition, different unions or groups may organize strikes to protest an emerging issue or government policy.
- The prison was closed in 1972 after a strike by prison guards protesting unsafe working conditions.
- February 19 - A general strike in Shanghai protests the presence of British troops.
- Brazilian truckers plan a one-week nationwide strike, starting tomorrow, to protest what they see as unfair treatment by Government authorities.
- A general strike in Shanghai protesting British presence.
- There were forty-eight strikes in the public sector alone in 1990, protesting the government's economic austerity program and layoffs of public-sector workers.
- Solidarity, which originated as a union movement and evolved into a political organization, no longer calls strikes to protest that one group of workers earns less than another.
- In 1920, he helped to organize, a general strike in Zaragoza to protest the assassination of Francesc Layret.
- In Tunisia on Feb. 25 a general strike at university campuses protested against the outbreak of the ground war; pacifist rallies were held by several thousand students.
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