walk off the/one's job

phrase

chiefly US, informal

: to stop working and go on strike

Teachers walked off the job today.

Examples of walk off the/one's job in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Oakland’s teachers union voted to authorize a strike on Friday, threatening to walk off the job if the district does not offer a contract with higher wages and address the high turnover plaguing its schools. — Devan Patel, Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2026

Then the infamous General Strike of 1909 arrives, and more than three hundred thousand workers walk off the job. — Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026

Thousands of workers in telecom, healthcare, and manufacturing walk off the job, demanding ‘human-in-the-loop’ contracts that block AI from doing mission-critical tasks. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Dec. 2025

Patrollers plan to walk off the job indefinitely, said union president Graham Hoffman, or until the resort will resume negotiations in good faith. — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 24 Dec. 2025