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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Recent Examples on the Web

In what’s expected to be a three-day strike impacting three South Bay hospitals and possibly patient care, thousands of Santa Clara County nurses plan to walk off the job early Tuesday in protest over workplace conditions, wages and staffing ratios. —Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 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

Not all Kaiser Permanente staff will walk off the job next week, though. —Samantha Delouya, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023

Some 9,000 members of the United Auto Workers union in Kentucky had been set to walk off the job on Friday. —Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024

These rumors, which spread primarily in the American South, maintained that Black maids, cooks and other domestic workers were organizing to walk off the job at the first lady’s urging, leaving their white employers to do their own housework. —Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024

Thousands of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers plan to walk off the job Wednesday in a Valentine's Day demonstration to protest lower pay and unsafe working conditions. —Kate Gibson, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2024

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

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