Who is "the population"? Here in France there's a major difference between people who watch the news and those who live in the real world. On the news we get fed propaganda by the business owners and fascist apparatus about all the privileged rail workers and nurses and how their striking is pure nonsense.
I mean, I have multiple examples of recent and semi-recent government policies that I'm certain would lead to Paris being on actual fire if they were proposed in France, but in the UK they are met with apathy at best. Strikes of rail workers and doctors are of course strikes, but they are mostly limited to just not working, and the impact is mostly pissing off the population rather than the government. It's out of their view, it doesn't impact their lives in any way other than journalists asking annoying questions about it.
> Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
Rioting and damaging property is not part of a strike. That is somewhere on the road to a war, or some other word for conflict resolution resulting involving violence.
Right now, the junior doctors are striking.
Not sure what you mean by general population, but we had major riots about 10 years ago where some police stations got attacked.