sympathy strike , also: sympathetic strike

From 1896, the labor movement started developing a clear working-class program and the first sympathy strikes began taking place.

Sympathy strikes, against a company by which workers are not directly employed, may be prohibited.

In turn, the football team joined in a sympathy strike.

The railroad union voted to stop trains all over the country in a sympathy strike.

Opinion among trade union leaders generally had begun to run strongly against sympathy strikes.

Sympathy strikes by tailors' and other unions quickly broke out.

The law put criminal penalties on secondary action (including "sympathy strikes").

Thousands of shipyard workers began a sympathy strike in Gdansk.

This has gone way beyond a sympathy strike.

Multiple Unions across the city declared sympathy strikes and joined the growing crowd.

The strike has spawned sympathy strikes that have idled some 37,000 workers.

But it soon spread as nearly every union in the city, including the Teamsters, supported the job action with sympathy strikes.

Sympathy strikes cost other coal companies hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.

By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities.

In some cases, other unions called sympathy strikes to assist their abused brethren.

The three employers sought injunctions against the sympathy strike, which they won on July 20, 1903.

The laws introduced in the early 80's stopped sympathy strikes and enforced democracy into the strike process.

Sympathy strikes in other parts of the city raised the number of strikers to over 80,000.

A sympathy strike broke out in Pittsburgh, and troops were sent from Philadelphia.

The entire panel went on a sympathy strike and missed the opening games of the National League.

Workers at dozens of factories also staged sympathy strikes and rallies with the miners, organizers said.

Federal law has long barred sympathy strikes.

Shea attempted to stop sympathy strikes by other Teamster locals in the city but failed.

The airline had also hired and trained 1,100 substitute flight attendants, in case their union stages a sympathy strike.

The with the garment workers' strike all but forgotten, the tailors' union asked that the other unions end their sympathy strikes.