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

The case was even threatened by a barrister's strike until it was exempted from industrial action.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 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