sick-out

Overreach would be a massive sick-out, in essence a dishonest strike.

Who's been overreaching? 2011

Given that noisy public-employee union backers are swarming the state capital in Madison, and that teachers have staged a mass "sick-out," he's just being prudent.

Tyranny by the lake? Charles Lane 2011

Visualize, if you will, the TV commercials now -- the Dem legislators running away, the distasteful protester signs, the schools closing due to the sick-out.

Friday question answered 2011

CBS doesn't dispute that Mr. Carolla staged a sick-out, but strongly rejects any notion that it's suffering a shortage of talent.

The Next Howard Stern? 2008

Then they'd ambushed the two innocent foremen" who'd been in on the sick-out but not the hijacking" and hidden them inside the cell block to shift suspicion and to get us to go into the population so they could make a play.

Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

They'd convinced the warden that they'd had nothing to do with the siege of St. Pat's, even though they'd taken part in the sick-out.

Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

I hear there was a massive sick-out Microsoft HQ and folks standing in line at the Redmond Apple Store are hiding behind hoodies and newspapers

29 June 2007: The day the world changed 2007

"The men who staged the sick-out have already been summoned into the lineup room, " Warden Clark said as we arrived in the drab hallway outside his office.

Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

A call to the warden's office revealed that a dozen men on the prison's three-to-eleven tour had staged a sick-out the week of the hijacking.

Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

Teacher sick-out shut down more than 50 schools on Wednesday.

CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2006 2006