on strike
Walking the line
On strike describes workers who have stopped working as a collective protest, typically to pressure employers over wages, conditions, or other demands.
The phrase functions as a predicate adjective: The teachers have been on strike for two weeks.
To go on strike is to begin such action.
The term extends to any organized refusal to participate: The students went on strike to protest tuition increases.
Pointed fence stake
- walkoutProtest by leaving
- unionJoining into one
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- lockoutEmployer-imposed work stoppage
labor dispute · industrial action · work stoppage · grievance · arbitration · mediation · negotiation · work-to-rule
Public display of opinion
- rallyGathering for a cause
- marchRhythmic group walk
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- solidarityUnity among allies
resistance · civil disobedience · dissent · occupy · sit-in · placard · chant · demand
picket
Pointed fence stake
- walkoutProtest by leaving
- unionJoining into one
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
lockout · labor dispute · industrial action · work stoppage · grievance · arbitration · mediation · negotiation · work-to-rule · blue flu
demonstration
Public display of opinion
solidarity · resistance · civil disobedience · dissent · occupy · sit-in · placard · chant · demand · activism
- workforceworkers, employee, employees, labor force, employer
on strikeworking
In active function
at work · on the job · on duty · back to work · reporting for duty
strike, striking, struck, striker, strikes, strikers, airstrike, restrike, counterstrike