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abstain
anti-strike
blackleg
cooling-off period
demarcation dispute
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lock
lock someone out
lockout
on strikephrase
sit down
stoppage
strike pay
strikebound
strikebreaker
strikebreaking
striker
sympathy
union-bashing

walk out | American Dictionary

walk out

phrasal verb with walkverb[ I/T ]us/wɔk/
to leave an event before it is finished because you are not enjoying it or because you do not agree with it:
It was such a bad movie that I felt like walking out in the first fifteen minutes.
If workers walk out, they go on strike (= stop working at their jobs in order to express a complaint):
Airline pilots are threatening to walk out next week.

walk out | Business English

walk out

phrasal verb with walkverb[ I or T ]uk /wɔːk/us
HR, WORKPLACE
to refuse to continue working and leave your office, factory, etc. to show your employer that you are unhappy about something:
Workers are threatening to walk out over pay.
 walk out of sth
to leave a room, meeting, etc. to show that you are not happy about something:
Several people walked out of the meeting.