industrial action

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The market is vulnerable to outages anywhere, from hurricanes, industrial action or cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

It issued formal notice of industrial action over a failure to keep a promise to cut the maximum amount of time teachers spend in front of a class by 90 minutes.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Several flights to Middle East destinations were excluded from the industrial action.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

The union said the £580,000 decrease was unprecedented, and revealed the anger of its members a year on from the start of all-out industrial action in the city.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

There follows a discussion of the old tactics of labor, its first political experience, and its final return to direct industrial action.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various