walk off the/one's job

idiom

chiefly US, informal

: to stop working and go on strike

Teachers walked off the job today.

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The parties agreed to extend their current contract to Jan. 15 after the ILA went on strike for three days to start October, with the union threatening to walk off the job again if a deal is not struck by then. —

Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 2 Jan. 2025 Thousands of Starbucks baristas are set to walk off the job on Tuesday, expanding the dayslong holiday strike to 300 stores in dozens of cities and towns nationwide, according to the union Starbucks Workers United. —

Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2024 During the shutdown over the 2018 holiday season, air traffic controllers threatened to walk off the job, and a higher rate of absences slowed down travel in some airports. —

Brian Bennett, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024 The strike, which saw some 33,000 workers walk off the job on Sept. 13, is now in its fourth week, with no end in sight. —

Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for walk off the/one's job

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