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Strike (also known as C. B. Strike internationally) is a British crime drama television programme based on the book series Cormoran Strike by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. [1] The programme was first broadcast on BBC One on 27 August 2017, after receiving an advance premiere at the British Film Institute on 10 August 2017.
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became common during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labor became important in factories and mines. As ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Strike, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Scyther S.T.R.I.K.E. , fictional counter-terrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe Strike Entertainment , film production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss, associated with Universal Studios
1952 steel strike: 1952 nationwide 540,000 [1] [2] 1971 Rail strike: 1971 nationwide 519,000 Steel strike of 1959: 1959 nationwide 500,000 [3] 1956 steel strike: 1956 nationwide 500,000 [4] 1949 steel strike: 1949 naionwide 459,000 [5] 1967 US Railroad strike: 1967 nationwide 440,000 [1] 1971 Telephone strike: 1971 nationwide 400,000 [6] 1970 ...
Belgium physicians' and dentists' strike in 1964, April 1 to April 18, 1964; Quebec specialist doctors strike [3] – October 10, 1970; UK consultants' strike – January to April 1975 [4] UK junior doctors' strike – November 1975 [4] Alberta Nurses Strike – 1982 [5] Israel – 1983 [6] Australian nurses 50-day strike [7] – 1986
The strike began in the coal mines of Staffordshire and soon spread throughout Britain, affecting factories, mills and mines from Scotland to South Wales. [20] Although the general strike started as an apolitical demand for better working conditions, by August 1842, it became directly associated with the Chartists and took on a revolutionary ...
A knee strike (commonly referred to simply as a knee) is a strike with the knee, either with the kneecap or the surrounding area. The most common is the straight knee strike, often employed from a clinch or double collar tie, targeting anywhere from the groin to the head. Variants include the curved knee strike, which is similar to a roundhouse ...