(A) Employment Law: When employees are unified and organize a work stoppage in order to pressure an employer into agreeing to employee demands, e.g. protesting low pay, better health benefits, etc. (B) Legal Practice: When the court orders something to be removed or stricken, such as a party’s motion or pleading or statements spoken by a witness that constituted inadmissible hearsay and an objection is granted so that the statement shall be struck from the record.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
The act of a body of workmen employed by the same master, in stopping work all together at a prearranged time, and refusing to continue until higher wages, or shorter time, or some other concession is grauted to them by the employer. In mining law. The strike of a vein or lode is its extension in the horizontal plane, or its lengthwise trend or course with reference to the points of the compass; distinguished from its “dip,” which is its slope or slant, away from the perpendicular, as it goes downward into the earth, or the angle of its deviation from the vertical plane.