industrial action
English
Noun
industrial action (countable and uncountable, plural industrial actions)
- (chiefly British, Ireland) A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.
- 2019 November 6, Robert Drysdale, “Wires offer boost to Borders revival”, in Rail, page 42:
- Furthermore, overdue training of crew on the new Class 385 electrics, compounded by industrial action, meant that announcements of train cancellations "due to a member of the train crew being unavailable" became very familiar to passengers across east central Scotland.
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workplace protest
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