Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] on strike " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , about 40,000 workers have gone on strike in roughly 80 steel and engineering companies , most of them owned by western German firms or the Treuhand , the agency privatising east German industry . |
| 2 | Employees of the Central Bank have gone on strike , refused to send any more telexes , and circulated documents using tow of the Shahs nephews and an army general , a month other of transferring $2.4 billion to banks outside Iran . |
| 3 | Some of Britain 's leading scientists have gone on strike over pay . |
| 4 | Post office staff have gone on strike after a technician was suspended for refusing to use machinery blacked by his union . |
| 5 | With the company rejecting this request , the workers have gone on strike … while the strike has been in full swing a second union has been organized by 800 workers under the auspices of Zenro [ right-wing union federation ] with a new slogan of ‘ immediate acceptance of dismissals and reopening of production ’ . |