Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] strike in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1979 gravediggers ' strike in Liverpool , which necessitated plans ( never executed ) for mass burials at sea , shamed us all but by then it was too late to correct a runaway madness . |
| 2 | Lorry drivers ' strike in England and Wales made official . |
| 3 | The miners ' strike in July showed how quickly workers ' discontent can erupt , take organised and radical form , and acquire leaders . |
| 4 | This corrective to assertions of media omnipotence can be found in a recent study of a major political/industrial story , the 1984 — 5 miners ' strike in Britain . |
| 5 | During the miners ' strike in 1984 , members of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers supported the strike call but , months later , a few of them returned to work under extensive protection from the police . |
| 6 | Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year . |
| 7 | Following the miners ' strike in 1984 , industrial action has sunk again , to what seems its lowest point in the period under consideration , though it is still too soon to tell if this will be sustained . |
| 8 | This was seen most recently during the miners ' strike in 1984–5 . |
| 9 | An oral history of the Miners ' Strike in a South Yorkshire pit village |
| 10 | Miners ' strike in Silesia |
| 11 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 12 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 13 | They relate to a crackdown on a shipyard workers ' strike in 1970 in which at least 25 people died . |
| 14 | Troops have been used fairly regularly in Britain in the course of industrial disputes , in the years before 1914 , in the General Strike of 1926 and , more recently , during the Glasgow dustmen 's strike in April 1975 and the firemen 's strike in the winter of 1977–8 . |
| 15 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 16 | A fifteen-day teachers ' strike in September 1989 , supported by other workers , reflected some of these economic and professional concerns , though the Costa Rican teachers ' union is not considered militant . |
| 17 | The result was a threatened players ' strike in 1909 , which led the authorities to re-recognize the union . |
| 18 | In the early 1960s the PFA , under Jimmy Hill 's leadership , threatened a players ' strike in support of the abolition of the maximum wage . |
| 19 | It is the first time that troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since the firemen 's strike in 1978 . |
| 20 | Troops have been used fairly regularly in Britain in the course of industrial disputes , in the years before 1914 , in the General Strike of 1926 and , more recently , during the Glasgow dustmen 's strike in April 1975 and the firemen 's strike in the winter of 1977–8 . |
| 21 | The cordones were units of industrial organisation made up of workers from various enterprises , which were brought into being by the Bosses ' strike in October 1972 . |