How to Use walk off the/one's job in a Sentence

walk off the/one's job

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  • Those workers must vote to approve the deal and could still walk off the job.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The union didn’t announce when employees there might walk off the job.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • During a dispute, workers would simply walk off the job and take to the streets.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Not all Kaiser Permanente staff will walk off the job next week, though.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN, 29 Sep. 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
  • Tens of thousands of dockworkers are set to walk off the job Tuesday morning.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Thousands of its union machinists may walk off the job in September.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The union hopes the first step to potentially walk off the job sends a clear message to the governor and lawmakers.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 21 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tens of thousands of longshoremen could walk off the job next week if their union and management can’t resolve long-running contract issues.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thousands of longshoremen from Maine to Texas could walk off the job next week if long-running contract issues are not resolved, leading to a costly strike.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Tens of thousands of longshoremen could walk off the job from Maine to Texas next week if their union and management can’t resolve long-running contract issues.
    Taylor Giorno, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • On Monday, Holden recommended the union’s members accept the deal, but by Friday the union instead voted to walk off the job.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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