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

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

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

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 • Mar. 17, 2026

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

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 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