work stoppage
Example Sentences
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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
As with earlier strikes, during the 2019 teachers walkout, administrators crossed teachers’ picket lines to keep schools open and hold things together — overseeing food distribution and student supervision during the six-day work stoppage.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The optics of a work stoppage are not good for anyone, Pereira said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 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
