strikers
n. countablen. workers who stop working to protest for better pay or conditions, or players in soccer whose main job is to score goals. You see this word most often in news about labor or sports.
n. employees engaged in a collective refusal to work as a form of protest, or offensive players in football tasked with scoring. Plural form of 'striker'.
The strikers are marching outside the factory today.
The team's star strikers managed to score three goals in the final ten minutes of the match.
While the factory strikers demanded a fifteen percent wage increase, management argued that global competition made such a hike impossible without significant layoffs.
Plural form; the singular 'striker' refers to an individual participant in either a labor dispute or a sporting match.