industrial action

Example Sentences

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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

The union said the £580,000 decrease was unprecedented, and revealed the anger of its members a year on from the start of all-out industrial action in the city.

From BBC

"My message to those still taking industrial action is simple: Come back to work as I want you to be part of this new and improved service. Our door remains open."

From BBC