token strike

Alternatively, they propose to have a token strike for a week to show that they're in sympathy with you.

She had aggravated him and invited retaliation, not expecting more than a token strike.

The breakaway union is balloting its members for a one-day token strike in protest over the amended pit closure plans.

Suspicion and a degree of confrontation, perhaps even shows of strength through token strikes and ministerial ultimatums, were inevitable and had to be faced.

Daniel G. Reid, primary owner of the tin plate trust, agreed to recognize the AA at the nonunion plants after a token strike in 1899.

As part of a dirty jobs dispute staged by NUPE, six women staged a one-day token strike to register their protest by keeping their clothes on.

Mainstream opinion is divided about both the efficacy of token strikes and the propriety of them when so many others are worse off than strikers who have jobs and pensions to strike over.

"The consensus is the Americans may feel compelled to use their high-technology military forces in order to make token strikes in Russia, thereby hoping to appease the war hawks in NATO.

But pro-democracy organizers, who canceled the rallies, continued their call for a token strike today, and many Hong Kong people shut their offices and shops or halted work to observe a moment of silence for the slain Beijing protesters.

Just as Poland faces token strikes to protest an increase in energy prices that will double the cost of home heating, Russia has cut its daily deliveries of natural gas to Poland in half, less than two weeks after it agreed in a barter deal to increase supplies in 1992.

The DCAC had earlier called off a proposal token strike by shirt-factory workers, but at about 3 p.m. about one thousand workers, mostly young women from some half-dozen factories, left work and marched up Strand Road, through Guildhall Square and via Shipquay Street to the Diamond.

While the German workers' reaction was not as broad or as confrontational as the labor unrest in France last fall, the token strikes underscored the deep reluctance of many European workers to countenance the erosion of job security and benefits, the emblems of the welfare state that are threatened by the spending cuts.