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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