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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Some airports may also experience disruptions and delays, such as during the 2019 shutdown when air traffic controllers working without pay threatened to walk off the job—a move that helped end the shutdown.
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Nik Popli, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
In the summer of 1884, the Knights of Labor began organizing restive Union Pacific workers, encouraging them to walk off the job.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
That’s why New York’s Taylor Law, on the books since 1967, gives public employees the right to unionize and bargain collectively — but explicitly prohibits strikes, with stiff and escalating penalties for those who walk off the job.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
The union didn’t announce when employees there might walk off the job.
—Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
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Nik Popli, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
In the summer of 1884, the Knights of Labor began organizing restive Union Pacific workers, encouraging them to walk off the job.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
That’s why New York’s Taylor Law, on the books since 1967, gives public employees the right to unionize and bargain collectively — but explicitly prohibits strikes, with stiff and escalating penalties for those who walk off the job.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
The union didn’t announce when employees there might walk off the job.
—Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
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