work stoppage

The union has previously sought to leverage the busy holiday season, launching a five-day work stoppage in the lead-up to last Christmas Eve.

Like last year, the work stoppage came on the coffee chain's popular Red Cup Day, when Starbucks gives reusable cups to customers who purchase holiday-themed drinks.

More than 3,000 striking Boeing defense workers on Thursday voted to end a strike over wage increases and retirement benefits, one of the longest work stoppages in the company's history.

It is currently the longest-running work stoppage in America, and among the most prolonged newspaper strikes in U.S. history.

Its motorized innards were prone to skidding, seizing and unexplained work stoppages, causing the crew to occasionally handle the camera like a vending machine that had stolen their money.