industrial action
Noun
Meaning
industrial action (countable and uncountable, plural industrial actions)
(chiefly Britain) A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.
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An agreement to end industrial action at Sydney's Port Botany has yet to be reached.
Consequently, the NLC and TUC agreed to suspend the planned industrial action.”
Cutting the corporate tax rate, penalising workers for taking industrial action and privatising public services assists this grotesque transfer of wealth.
For eleven weeks, between August and October 1979, industrial action forced Coronation Street and the entire ITV network (apart from the Channel Islands ) off the air.
Department of Transport Head of Transport Services Jeroen Weimar said it was disappointing passengers continued to be impacted by industrial action.
Doctors and nurses have threatened industrial action if the events are allowed to go ahead and more than 15,000 people have signed an demanding that they be cancelled.