GERMANY - 70,000 workers downed tools at VW factories today, as the EV crisis spreads.
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Well, I'm a 61 year old child of 2 UAW members and while I remember hearing talk of strikes and actual strikes, that phrase is not one I can recall hearing. But, again, I'm 61...
The idiom "downed tools" is certainly common in the UK and it means "stopped work and walked out".