asituationwhereworkersstopworkingto showtheirsupportfor agroupofworkerswho are onstrike(Definition ofsympathy strikefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsympathy strike
sympathy strikeIn turn, the football team joined in asympathystrike.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thesympathystrikedemonstrated the enormous power of united action, yet resulted in a decisive government response to end the strike and destroy the union.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The railroad union voted to stop trains all over the country in asympathystrike.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Various professional associations supported the struggle and went on asympathystrike.From theCambridge English CorpusApparently, the gardeners were required to go out on asympathystrike.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0There was also the question of thesympathystrike.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Here again, we cannot believe that thesympathystrikeis necessary.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Unions bitterly resented the injunction; a few sympathy strikes shut down some railroads completely.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sympathy strikes may be undertaken by a union as an organization or by individual union members choosing not to cross a picket line.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sympathy strikes by tailors' and other unions quickly broke out.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/sympathy-strike##
