Below you will find example sentences with "strike action". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Strike Action in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: strike
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "strike action" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 29.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as are taking strike action in september, ballot for strike action over christmas, members, days and taking stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with climate action, urgent action, action movies, first strike and hunger strike, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with strike action
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Workers voted 98 per cent in favour of strike action, but their 72-hour strike notice expired last weekend. (19 words)
A large majority of school leaders at schools across Denbighshire and Conwy are taking part in the strike action. (19 words)
A ballot was held among Education Authority EA staff who are Unite members and 94 per-cent voted for strike action. (21 words)
There was discontent and threats of strike action among prison guards, and after guards shot a prisoner during a riot in February, prisoners began a hunger strike, with five taking to the roof with protest signs made from bed sheets. (40 words)
However, we cannot condone strike action being taken in sixth form colleges and we will continue to urge the Government to avoid this action by providing the additional funding required to match the pay award made to staff in schools”. (40 words)
On Tuesday, NHS England’s national medical director, Professor Sir Stephen Powis, said the action comes at “one of our busiest periods” and warned that the strike action will mean the NHS is “starting 2024 on the back foot”. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
PCS members have taken 118 days of targeted strike action in the first phase of their strike stratergy and a further 186 days in the second phase, alongside 3 days of national action.
Once this period of strike action ends on January 8 2024, junior doctors will have been on strike 34 days in total since their protracted period of industrial action began in March of last year.
Collective bargaining main Collective action main Strikers gathering in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester in the 1926 General Strike in the U.K. Strike action is the worker tactic most associated with industrial disputes.
Unfortunately, the list of sectors that are taking strike action in September may not be complete yet, as several are still collecting ballots from their members on whether to strike.
Hundreds of power plant workers are to strike in a dispute with their employer over pay, with additional days of industrial strike action on the cards.
There was discontent and threats of strike action among prison guards, and after guards shot a prisoner during a riot in February, prisoners began a hunger strike, with five taking to the roof with protest signs made from bed sheets.
Workers voted 98 per cent in favour of strike action, but their 72-hour strike notice expired last weekend.
The latest round of strike action follows previous stoppages, and more action is scheduled to take place until April 3 if a resolution is not found.
Fiona Mercer, a care-worker and trade unionist from the northwest of England, took legal action against her employer after she was suspended in 2019 during planned strike action, which prevented her from talking to her colleagues.
However, we cannot condone strike action being taken in sixth form colleges and we will continue to urge the Government to avoid this action by providing the additional funding required to match the pay award made to staff in schools”.
On Tuesday, NHS England’s national medical director, Professor Sir Stephen Powis, said the action comes at “one of our busiest periods” and warned that the strike action will mean the NHS is “starting 2024 on the back foot”.
The pilots union has said it will pause its action through the peak holiday travel period of December 21 to January 3, but has the option of resuming strike action after that.
The protest action is to protest the minimum wage hourly rate, and while businesses are theoretically protected by law during strike action, the reality is that intimidation and damage to property are often the order of the day.
In December 2009, a ballot for strike action over Christmas received a high level of support, citation action was blocked by a court injunction that deemed the ballot illegal.
A ballot of Unison members at the publicly owned utility found almost four fifths (78 per cent) were in favour of strike action.
A ballot was held among Education Authority EA staff who are Unite members and 94 per-cent voted for strike action.
A failure to reach an agreement on the 2022/23 award resulted in Unite members taking part in strike action last year.
A group of PCS union activists shared that they were going to resist their union's ballot to pause strike action.
A large majority of school leaders at schools across Denbighshire and Conwy are taking part in the strike action.
Allied health staff joined HSU members taking strike action at Westmead, Royal North Shore Hospital, Prince of Wales and in Tamworth and Lismore.