1. Wendy: Can you give me a definition of strike and when people have used strike action?

2. Cilla: Yes. I'm not sure of the formal [1] a) definition b) employer c) industry d) workers , but a strike is to withdraw your [2] a) definition b) divided c) employer d) labour . In other words, to. even though you are in employment, it is to say "I'm not going to come to work or I'm going to make sure, or going to try [3] a) factory b) labour c) work d) persuade other people not to come to work because I want to talk or to ask my union on my behalf to talk to my [4] a) employer b) labour c) persuade about a [5] a) divided b) employer c) grievance d) industry ."

3. Now those grievances can be very different and people go on strike for lots of different reasons. For example, we had in the UK the miners' strike in the early 1980's which was a massive national strike and that was because the [6] a) employer b) industry c) workers , the mining [7] a) factory b) industry c) workers , was closing down and what [8] a) definition b) employer c) labour d) miners were doing was fighting the closure of the [9] a) divided b) industry c) labour . So in that case, they all went on strike, they withdrew their [10] a) definition b) factory c) labour d) workers for upward of a year.

4. Equally we have situations where people will strike over union recognition. In other words, they want to have a trade union, they want to be a member of a trade union, but their [11] a) definition b) employer c) factory d) miners will not let unions organise within the [12] a) employer b) factory c) industry d) work so people will ... then [13] a) definition b) labour c) workers will then go and contact a local trade union and that person from the union will talk to the [14] a) employer b) factory c) labour d) miners . If the [15] a) definition b) divided c) employer d) industry still says "No you're not going to be. I'm not going to let my [16] a) employer b) workers be members of a trade union, I'm not going to let you organise in here", then the unions will call out [17] a) works b) factory c) workers on strike. So again, they might, for example, stand in front of the [18] a) definition b) factory c) grievance d) workers and try and dissuade other people from going in.

5. Wendy: So if people don't go to work, do they still get paid when they're on strike?

6. Cilla: Tend not to. I mean usually they don't, that's usually withdrawn. So that's what I meant before, it's actually quite an investment. What people try and do, of course, is to stand ... you know, is to stop everyone going in, to be solid, to be strong.

7. That doesn't always happen and tension can take place, but they ... you know, the idea is there's a very strong trade union saying which is "United we stand, [19] a) divided b) employer c) miners we fall. Altogether we stand a chance of winning. If we're [20] a) divided b) employer c) industry d) labour and fragmented, then we stand no chance at all." So that's what a strike means, withdrawing your [21] a) work b) factory c) industry d) labour .