1. I've not, when Labour was last in power and were going back now to nineteen seventies, they left the country in a mess, there was three day week, there was strike's, electricity strike, the coal board were on strike, every body was striking and down tools. BNC
2. As there is little work in the shipyards, it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools. BNC
3. Thousands of Krakow steelworkers downed tools to demand more pay. CIDoI