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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
industrial action
noun
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▪ In one case the union concerned had balloted its members on several variations of industrial action.
▪ It is for this reason that I regard the industrial action which swept through schools in the mid-1980s with regret.
▪ More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action.
▪ Picketing in various forms has shown itself to be one of the most effective forms of industrial action.
▪ Talk was of a minor disciplinary measure by management that might lead to industrial action.
▪ The idea of unions balloting their members before taking industrial action took hold.
▪ There have been frequent disagreements over the use of industrial action to bolster annual negotiations.
▪ There was a threat of industrial action against Mercury's shareholders.
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industrial action

n. (context chiefly British English) A workplace protest by employee designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.

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Industrial action

Industrial action ( Europe, India, South Africa and Australia) or job action ( Canada and US) refers collectively to any measure taken by trade unions or other organised labour meant to reduce productivity in a workplace. Quite often it is used and interpreted as a euphemism for strike or mass strike, but the scope is much wider. Industrial action may take place in the context of a labour dispute or may be meant to effect political or social change. Specifically industrial action may include one or more of the following:

  • Strike
  • Occupation of factories
  • Work-to-rule
  • General strike ( mass strike)
  • Slowdown (or Go-slow)
  • Overtime ban
  • Blue flu

Usage examples of "industrial action".

More, he admitted to himself ruefully, because they had enjoyed listening to a superb orator than because they intended any industrial action.

It doesn't explain what induced you to become a trawlerman, or why a man with your record of industrial action should commit himself so wholeheartedly to the salvage and management of a vessel for gain.

We know there is industrial action but even the freelancers we've sent upstream haven't reported back.

However it now appears that industrial action by air-traffic controllers on the western seaboard of America had effected the cancellation of the original flight, and Mr.