industrial action

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Union leaders said they would seek to remove legal obstacles to a strike, referring to management’s attempt to halt the industrial action in a local court.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

An informal indicative ballot held already this year, with a turnout of 48.6%, suggested 90.5% of teachers who are members of the NEU would be prepared to take industrial action over pay.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

TfL said the industrial action was "completely unnecessary" while Aslef, another Tube driver union, supports the deal as "exactly the sort every trade union should be trying to achieve".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

This follows lessons learned from deployments on days with industrial action.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 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