How to Use walk off the/one's job in a Sentence
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The number of staff who will walk off the job is unclear.
— Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Those workers must vote to approve the deal and could still walk off the job.
— Lauren Kaori Gurley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Yoon has likened the move by doctors to walk off the job as holding hostage the lives and health of people.
— Jenny Lee, Fortune Asia, 22 Feb. 2024 -
Not all Kaiser Permanente staff will walk off the job next week, though.
— Samantha Delouya, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023 -
The Teamsters also have a contract in place, and leaders cannot tell them to walk off the job if the writers strike.
— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 1 May 2023 -
If no deal is reached by July 31, the union has vowed to walk off the job in what would be America's biggest strike in 60 years.
— Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 July 2023 -
Freight train drivers who direct 20 billion tons of goods per year have threatened to walk off the job.
— Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2022 -
But the union’s costs broadened again this week when its members beyond the Big Three decided to walk off the job, too.
— Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023 -
If a resolution isn’t reached during that time, the pilots can walk off the job or the airline can lock them out.
— Caitlin Harrington, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023 -
Union workers plan to walk off the job at 12 Anheuser-Busch breweries if a new contract isn’t signed by the end of February.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024 -
Pilots at Southwest Airlines are also now voting on whether to walk off the job.
— Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 May 2023 -
Fain told members Thursday just before the strike started that more workers may be called upon to walk off the job.
— Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023 -
But a union representative told the drivers out on their rounds to return instead and walk off the job.
— Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 1 June 2023 -
Its workers at seven Marriott hotels in Boston were the first in the country to walk off the job as part of a nationwide strike in 2018.
— Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023 -
Thousands of its union machinists may walk off the job in September.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Employees who walk off the job are prepared to forgo pay for the day, according to the NewsGuild spokeswoman.
— Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022 -
If the Teamsters walk off the job, it is expected to be the largest single employer strike in U.S. history.
— Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023 -
The decision to walk off the job is not one that pharmacists take lightly, but for many the action is unavoidable, Hogue said.
— Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023 -
If all of that and some other steps fail, only then would the pilots actually be legally allowed to walk off the job.
— Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023 -
Her dismissal provided the spark for hundreds of workers at the factory to walk off the job, according to the WRC report and Gulel.
— Scott McLean, CNN, 26 June 2024 -
For the first time in over a decade, thousands of Los Angeles city workers will walk off the job Tuesday, upending some services across the city for 24 hours.
— Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023 -
After a set of union contracts expire Friday, up to 500 workers represented by ten unions could walk off the job.
— Craig Hooper, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 -
When workers walk off the job in response to health and safety concerns, Alma is fired in retaliation, then hired by the union to continue the fight.
— Micah Uetricht, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Journalists for the largest newspaper chain in the country will walk off the job next week, in a series of strikes staged in part to protest the leadership of the company’s chief executive.
— Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 1 June 2023 -
Journalists at the largest newspaper chain in the country will walk off the job next week, in a series of strikes staged in part to protest the leadership of the company’s chief executive.
— Elahe Izadi, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023 -
From the automobile industry to Hollywood, US workers have gone on strike at rates not seen in years and even more could walk off the job to demand better contracts.
— Bryan Mena, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023 -
However, union members could potentially reject the contract agreement, walk off the job and send the two sides back to the bargaining table.
— Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2024 -
The union has a no-strike clause in place, so its leadership likely would not instruct actors to walk off the job if a domestic show were to relocate to another country.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024 -
Security guards at Heathrow Airport plan to walk off the job starting May 5, threatening to disrupt travel for the coronation.
— Kelvin Chan, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Leslie Lilla, a cocktail server at the Bellagio for 25 years, said earlier this month that union members have been preparing for a possible strike and are ready and willing to walk off the job.
— Rio Yamat, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
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