Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [prep] strike " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage , the prison guards went on strike , claiming the prisoners were better armed than them . |
| 2 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 3 | And if tutors go on strike because they do n't get more money , it certainly wo n't be the students who notice . |
| 4 | In 1990 teachers in five provinces went on strike for a 100 per cent rise . |
| 5 | Rubbish piled up at Madrid airport as cleaners went on strike for more pay |
| 6 | Nottinghamshire miners went on strike to protest against losing money because of their own ban on overtime . |
| 7 | The docks remained busy throughout the long hot summer months , but as winter drew in there was more trouble brewing as the miners went on strike for better pay . |
| 8 | More than 70,000 miners went on strike on March 1 in protest at European Community ( EC ) plans to reduce state subsidies to the coal industry . |
| 9 | The action which forced the resignation of Roman and his National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government began on Sept. 23 , when 52,000 miners went on strike in the Jiu Valley , protesting over soaring inflation , cuts in their living standards and , more generally , the government 's austerity programme . |
| 10 | Transport workers and some miners went on strike on Sept. 2 , affecting most airports , major railway junctions ( reportedly causing difficulties on Russia 's railways ) and 39 coal mines . |
| 11 | This research encompassed the 1979 Winter of Discontent when selected public service workers went on strike against a government-imposed pay limit . |
| 12 | Local government workers went on strike , including dustmen , school caretakers , meals staff , crossing patrols , sewer-men , gravediggers , road-repairers , hospital domestic staff and porters , laundry and kitchen staff ; and over 20 municipal airports were hit when ground staff went on strike . |
| 13 | News of impending bread rationing created panic buying and on Thursday 23 February , International Women 's Day , female textile workers went on strike and demonstrated , closely followed by metal workers concentrated in the most militant and solidly proletarian quarter of Petrograd , the Vyborg district . |
| 14 | High inflation in 1946 heralded a strike wave of unprecedented proportions : over 4.5 million workers went on strike and more working days were lost than at any time since 1927 ( Wallace et al. , 1988:8 ) . |
| 15 | An estimated 70,000 public-sector workers went on strike on May 10 after the government had unilaterally revoked the Civil Service Law , which protected the rights of public-sector workers . |
| 16 | On Jan. 15 , 1990 , Centromín workers went on strike for about 10 days to demand improvements in wages and conditions and the release of Víctor Taype , the president of the National Federation of Mine , Metallurgical and Steel Workers ( Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros , Metalúrgicos y Siderúrgicos — FNTMMS ) , who had been detained in Huancavelica since November 1989 on terrorist charges . |
| 17 | The latter proposed an 18-point austerity plan but this was rejected by the council , and on Oct. 2 some 5,000 municipal workers went on strike in protest at the non-payment of their salaries . |
| 18 | On Oct. 25 the General Union of Algerian Workers ( UGTA ) signed an agreement with the government to raise the minimum monthly wage , but on Oct. 28 some 7,000 more workers went on strike in Jijel in the north of the country . |
| 19 | State-sector workers went on strike in response , ignoring government restrictions on those in essential services . |
| 20 | Bank workers went on strike on Feb. 4 and occupied the headquarters of the National Savings and Insurance Bank in the capital , Buenos Aires , in protest at the announcement that it was to be privatized , Cavallo withdrawing this intention on Feb. 5 . |
| 21 | Ten rail unions representing some 250,000 workers went on strike on April 17 after failing to resolve a three-year dispute with management over wages , health care and working conditions . |
| 22 | On Dec. 5 , 1990 , more than 1,000,000 workers went on strike for 48 hours in protest at a proposed law allowing the dismissal of workers participating in strikes judged to be illegal . |
| 23 | Post Office and health workers staged warning strikes , and in the Fier district , oil industry workers went on strike from Nov. 13 , despite an earlier strike having been deemed illegal on Nov. 4 at a meeting of the Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | The unrest began on May 5 as textile workers went on strike in support of a pay demand . |
| 25 | On Aug. 24 , workers went on strike at the Ursus tractor plant near Warsaw . |
| 26 | On Aug. 24 , workers went on strike at the Ursus tractor plant near Warsaw . |
| 27 | Domestic passenger air traffic was considerably disrupted on March 4 , 1989 , when pilots and flight attendants working for Eastern Airlines went on strike . |
| 28 | MILLIONS of black South Africans went on strike yesterday in what anti-apartheid movements called the biggest stoppage in the country 's history . |
| 29 | Reaction to Yeltsin 's strike call was patchy : mines in the militant Kuzbass and Donbass regions went on strike , as did five of the 13 mines in Vorkuta , but the oil and gas industries of Tyumen ( Siberia ) were working normally . |
| 30 | 18 Prisoners went on strike for 32 days to demand the liberty of all political prisoners and the end to human rights violations . |