What is "strikebound"

a. Describing a company or organization that is not operating normally because some, or all of its workforce are on strike, or it is affected indirectly by a strike elsewhere.

adj. closed or immobilized by a strike; "a strikebound airline"

Strikebound is a 1984 Australian film directed by Richard Lowenstein and based on the Wendy Lowenstein novel Dead Men Don't Dig Coal. The film got several AFI Award nominations and won in the Best Achievement in Production Design category.

Strikebound is the dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.