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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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Meanwhile, thousands of auto workers are threatening to walk off the job as soon as Friday if automakers don’t address their demands.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• Los Angeles’ hot labor summer will get a little more heated Tuesday morning, when thousands of Los Angeles city workers plan to walk off the job for a 24-hour strike.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Amazon workers and labor activists in roughly 30 countries, including the U.S., plan to walk off the job and stage other protests on Friday to demand better pay and working conditions.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2022
• If some three hundred thousand workers walk off the job this summer, the consequences for the company could be severe, with non-union competitors taking advantage of the tumult to steal customers from UPS.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• Financial losses can be immense for automotive companies when their workers walk off the job.
  — Marick Masters, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2024