go on strike
Refuse to work
To go on strike is to stop working as a collective protest, typically to pressure an employer over wages, conditions, or other demands.
Workers who go on strike refuse to perform their jobs until negotiations succeed: The nurses voted to go on strike if management doesn't address staffing levels.
The phrase can extend to other refusals: The kids went on strike over bedtime.
- picketPointed fence stake
- Haymarket affair1886 Chicago labor riot
- labor unionCollective bargaining group
- walkoutProtest by leaving
- lockoutEmployer-imposed work stoppage
walk off the job · unionize · grievance · slow-down · collective bargaining · contract negotiations · wage negotiations · work stoppage · labor dispute · boycott · labor law · arbitration · labor movement · injunction · sit-in · down tools · worker empowerment · protest