NOUN
- a strike in support of other workers who are on strike; a strike not resulting from direct grievances against the workers' employer
How To Use sympathy strike In A Sentence
- Last week hundreds of workers all across the UK rallied together in demonstrations, sympathy strikes and walkouts. Times, Sunday Times
- By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities.
- The Triple Alliance of transport workers, miners, and railwaymen was in existence by 1914 and had a strategy of sympathy strikes in place.
- The suppression of the strike led to sympathy strikes in other industries.
- The workers say their action is a sympathy strike to protest the firing of about 800 employees by U.S. airline catering company Gate Gourmet.
- Last week hundreds of workers all across the UK rallied together in demonstrations, sympathy strikes and walkouts. Times, Sunday Times
- Workers walked out in protest last month, triggering a wave of unofficial sympathy strikes. The Sun
