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work stoppage
noun as in work cessation
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Delaying safe, in-person learning with an illegal work stoppage will push students even further behind.
He failed to do so only in 1981, which was shortened by a work stoppage.
Tech workers, for instance, organized at least 43 protests, actions or work stoppages related to the coronavirus last year, including a number of small, upstart operations, independent of any formal union, according to Collective Action in Tech.
The old union would stop the line over seemingly trivial things, but the United Food and Commercial Workers local didn’t hold a walkout or work stoppage, which labor laws significantly restrict, as more than 1,000 workers got infected.
The hosts of late-night talk shows — including The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert, among others — were forbidden from working with their writing staffs, since the Writers Guild of America had declared a work stoppage.
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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to work stoppage, such as: lockout, walkout, sit-down strike, and strike.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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