industrial action

Example Sentences

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The unions need to give 10 days' notice of a strike or any other industrial action.

From BBC

Both striking council workers and some agency workers employed by Job & Talent have recently voted to extend their industrial action mandate past May's local elections and into September.

From BBC

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

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

From Barron's

Hence, for example, the degradation of the right to peaceful public protest in the name both of security and of interruption to business: to a logistics network, the disruption caused by industrial action and that caused by a dirty bomb are functionally the same.

From Salon