work stoppage
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The work stoppage imperils GM’s heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, as the automaker has limited axle stock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
No baseball games have been missed because of a work stoppage since the strike ended in the spring of 1995.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
A Samsung strike "would almost certainly have been the biggest work stoppage in the history of the global semiconductor industry", South Korean writer and researcher Kap Seol said in an article for US magazine Jacobin.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
The NFL and its referees association have a new collective bargaining agreement, avoiding a work stoppage and hopefully anything like 2012’s botched ‘Fail Mary’ call.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
