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

A deal was struck to honour the pledge by cutting class contact time less than a week before industrial action was due to begin.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Teachers went on strike on Tuesday and are due to take industrial action for a further 11 days in March and April.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

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

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

The existence of such a system of taxation, with the machinery for collecting money in this way, allows the government more freedom of industrial action than any private individual can command.

From Practical Argumentation by Pattee, George K.